Taxonomy is the system of naming things

GENUS ALWAYS COMES FIRST AND THEN IT BECOMS SPECIES WHEN WRITING IT DOWN

The first two are for typing

Must be one of the three ways in the slides no exceptions
epithets a better name for species
Common names just don't work
Linnaeus- life work was putting organisms into different groups
Anything that you would use the word griup for can be aclled a taxon
Domain comes before kingdom
We have it because we could just categorize it more
Level sof organization includes organelles organ system etc.
Phylogenic trees look like grdualism
cladograms look like punctuated equilibrium
need to know 7 characteristics of life
An example of a photoheterotroph is the venus fly trap
prokaryoytes have pili
eukayotes have flagella and cilia
fungi have chitin