Diversity of Life Reading Reflection #7 By: E.O. Wilson Chapter 8: Unexplored Biosphere
Half the worlds species are arthropods
Classification Systems 3 domains 6 kingdoms Grouping organisms based on similarities
Cladistics – Phylogenetic Trees
Coevolution
Reading Reflection Explore two Biodiversity online databases http://eol.org/ http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/taxaform.html Find one or two organisms that you have never heard of before, identify… Classification: Kingdom all the way to species! Habitat Niche Unique strategies for survival Importance to ecosystem Threats to species survival, actual, implied or hypothetical Why do we care about this organism?