Taxonomy is much more complicated than I remember from high school. For one thing I thought the top level was Kingdom, consisting of Animal and Plant. There's like 50x more to it. And I actually liked school and mostly paid attention. WTF?
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When I learned about taxonomy in the 90's they hadn't really sequenced many genomes, so taxonomy was still very much phenotype driven, rather than the modern genetic/molecular approaches. I just assumed that everything I learned has become out of date.
See my stupid ass would remember the fun phrase but not the related factual word. So I'd just have phrases with no inkling what the original info was.
I can never remember that. Thanks!
I feel like Community inadvertently helped so many biology students in the past 10 years.
My GCSE bio class taught something along the lines of "Dear kinky prostitutes, come over for great sex"
Interesting. Kevin showed up either way.
The man loves his work. You gotta admire it.
From 20 feet away with a full NBC suit and some plastic sheeting, but you gotta.
Kevin goes both ways.
Wow, my bf's name is Kenny and we love having gay sex, so this is perfect for me!
Is he a ratfucker
Which is Domain? When I learned this, it only started at Kevin. Nice to see folks getting more polite regarding their gay sex.
Archaea and Everything Else (I can't remember the other domain)
Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya
The kingdoms have changed several times, they're basically trying to use a more accurate system based on DNA using genotyping to decide which groups are more closely related and be less reliant on behavior and appearance.
due to the 'Dont Say Gay' bill my biology teacher said it was "great sex" instead of "gay sex".
literally 1984
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Reminds us of how one of our teachers taught us SOHCAHTOA:
Sex On Hard Concrete Always Harms The Orgasmic Areas.