ANIMALS AND PLANTS
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Discontinuous Variables
Specific answers (categoric data) , e.g eye colour, hair colour, tongue rolling, some values can be expressed as SPECIFIC numbers (discrete data) e.g shoe size, no. of points on a holly leaf, represent using a bar graph or pictogram regardless of order
Continuous variables
Measurements can take any value e.g length , height, mass , reaction time represent using line graph or histograph
What does the bell-shaped curve mean?
Normal distribution
Is length continuous or discontinuous?
Continuous
How many types of average is there?
3 types.
What are the types of average?
Mean, median, and mode.
What causes variation?
Inherited factors, and environmental factors, or sometimes both.
Inherited
If e.g your parents have brown eyes, you’re most likely to have brown eyes. Genes are a factor in this.
Environmental
Caused by your surroundings
When was taxonomy developed and by who?
Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century.
Who/what does taxonomy apply to?
All living things.
What are the features of the taxonomy classification system?
5 kingdoms, which are further separated by phyla.
What is the smallest unit of classification?
Species
What are the 5 kingdoms?
Animal, Fungi, Monera, Plants, Protists
What are the 7 phyla (in order)?
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
What is special about the naming of species?
Unique binomial name, 2 Latin words in italics, the first word starts with a capital and is the genus, the second starts is lowercase and describes the species.
Vertebrates
Animals with a backbone.
How many classes of vertebrates are there?
5
What are the names of the classes of vertebrates?
Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Mammals, Reptiles
Birds
Warm-blooded, feathers, breathes using lungs, lays eggs with hard shells
What’s an example of a bird?
Owl
Fish
Cold-blooded, scaly skin, breathe using gills, live in water, lay eggs in water
What’s an example of a fish?
Eel
Mammals
Warm-blooded, fur or hair, breathe using lungs, gives birth to live young