ZOOLOGY STUDY GUIDE - Ye. O. Nevedomska - 2013

LECTURE 1. DIVERSITY OF THE ORGANIC WORLD

Outline

1. Natural System of the organic world.

2. Levels of Structural Organization of living organisms.

3. A BRIEF HISTORY OF the animal kingdom.

4. Zoological Classification.

Key Concepts: natural system, prokaryotes, eukaryotes, systematics, taxa, taxonomic categories (taxonomic units), LEVELS OF STRUCTURAL organization of living matter, geological era, period, epoch.



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