Tag: Taxonomy

{“group”:”Taxonomy”,”term”:”Artificial system”,”exam”:”Bentham and Hooker is a natural system still cited in many courses.”}

{“group”:”Taxonomy”,”term”:”Binomial nomenclature”,”exam”:”The species name is the whole binomial, not the epithet alone.”}

{“group”:”Taxonomy”,”term”:”Family”,”exam”:”Learn the -aceae ending and those three old names.”}

{“group”:”Taxonomy”,”term”:”Genus”,”exam”:”Generic name + epithet = binomial.”}

{“group”:”Taxonomy”,”term”:”Herbarium”,”exam”:”Type specimens are stored in herbaria.”}

{“group”:”Taxonomy”,”term”:”Phylogeny”,”exam”:”A clade is an ancestor plus all descendants (monophyletic).”}

{“group”:”Taxonomy”,”term”:”Species”,”exam”:”Hierarchy: kingdom, division, class, order, family, genus, species.”}

{“group”:”Taxonomy”,”term”:”Type specimen”,”exam”:”The name follows the type even if the first description was incomplete.”}