Classification Test

The concept that individual members of a species are best suited for their environment are more likely to survive, reproduce, and pass these favorable traits on to their offspring is known as?

• taxonomy

• morphology

• natural selection

• phylogeny

The branch of biology that classifies organisms and assigns each organism a universally accepted name is called?

• taxonomy

• morphology

• natural selection

• phylogeny

Who first attempted to classify the living organisms on Earth?

• Darwin

• Aristotle

• Linnaeus

• Musk

Who was the first to attempt a scientific classification of organisms?

• Darwin

• Aristotle

• Musk

• Linnaeus

The naming system that assigns a two part scientific name to each organism is called?

• Cladistics

• Binomial nomenclature

• Morphology

• Dichotomous key

The term ____ refers to the

evolutionary history of an organism.

• phylogeny

• taxonomy

• cladistics

• morphology

Traditionally, the _____ of the organism was used as the basis for its classification.

• phylogeny

• taxonomy

• cladistics

• morphology

Recently, an additional level of classification has been added that is essentially a “super kingdom”, this level is called?

• class

• order

• domain

• genus

A new method of classifying organisms based on shared derived characters is called?

• phylogeny

• taxonomy

• cladistics

• morphology

A diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships between a group of organisms is called a?

• phylogeny

• cladogram

• taxonomy

• morphology