Question

taxonomy and binomial nomenclature practice
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use the table below to answer questions 1-5.

write the scientific name of the following organisms, using the correct format:

1. golden eagle:
2. african bush elephant:
3. northern harrier:
4. african manatee:
5. which two organisms are more closely related? how do you know?
6. which two organisms are more closely related, organisms in the same class or organisms in the same family? how do you know?

Explanation:

1. For scientific names, the genus is capitalized, species is lowercase, and the entire name is italicized (or underlined by hand, which is the handwritten equivalent of italicization).
2. For question 5: The Golden Eagle and Northern Harrier share Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, and Family, while other pairs share fewer consecutive higher taxonomic ranks. More shared taxonomic ranks mean closer evolutionary relatedness.
3. For question 6: Taxonomic ranks are ordered from broad to specific as Domain > Kingdom > Phylum > Class > Order > Family > Genus > Species. A more specific taxon (family) means the organisms within it share a more recent common ancestor, making them more closely related than those only sharing a class.

Answer:

1. Aquila chrysaetos
2. Loxodonta africana
3. Circus cyaneus
4. Trichechus senegalensis
5. Golden Eagle and Northern Harrier; they share more taxonomic ranks.
6. Organisms in the same family; family is a more specific taxon than class.