| Great! This quiz could be extended with quite some other ranks (Opisthokonta, Eumetazoa, Bilateria, Deuterostomia, Craniata, Gnathostomata, Osteichthyes, Tetrapoda, Amniota, Eutheria, Placentalia, Euarchontoglires, Euarchonta, Platyrrhini, Hominoidea, and a few others), but that's probably not a good idea in this place when we also want to give the people a chance who are not crazy taxonomists.
A couple of comments on the meanings given:
-While the "eu" in "Eukaryota" etymologically means "good" and "karyon" means "kernel", the term was coined in the 20th century and actually means "true nucleus" with the meanings those two words usually have in scientific vocabulary.
-I wouldn't define "Hominidae" and "Homininae" as anything else than "Homo with a random suffix". -idae and -inae are just the things you affix to a name in taxonomy to get a family or subfamily, they don't (as far as I know) have any more meaning than that. |
Six Kingdoms
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George Costanza: Marine Biologist
