Practice: Comparing Kingdoms

What term would best be used to complete the Venn diagram above?

• mobile

• vertebrate

• heterotrophic

• unicellular

What characteristic could not be used to complete the Venn diagram above?

• made of cells

• contains DNA

• uses ribosomes

• has nuclei

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Kingdom Eubacteria and Kingdom Archaea contain organisms which were once placed into the same kingdom. While biochemical analysis of their genomes and metabolisms shows that they are significantly different, they were once thought to belong to the same kingdom because they both -

• maintain steady metabolisms

• contain only prokaryotic organisms

• construct proteins using ribosomes and mRNA

• act as the main producers in forest biomes

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Fungi were once thought to be a variety of plants. This was primarily because both plants and fungi contain organisms which are –

• heterotrophic

• prokaryotic

• immobile

• photosynthetic

Fish are animals and euglena are protists. One thing that a fish and euglena have in common is that they are both –

• eukaryotic

• autotrophic

• chemosynthetic

• vertebrate

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A student is asked to compare the similarities and differences of plants, animals and fungi. What is one thing that the student might list as a unique characteristic of plants?

• The ability to move freely

• The use of ATP as an energy molecule

• The use of DNA as its genetic material

• The ability to make its own food

Unlike a tiger, a tree or a mushroom, a bacterium does not contain –

• water

• ribosomes

• a nucleus

• a cell membrane

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An elephant and a mushroom are very different organisms, but they are similar in that both of these organisms –

• can move large distances to find water

• maintain homeostasis in their cells

• obtain nutrients from their surroundings

• have cell walls of chitin around each cell

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Which of the following sets of kingdoms contains organisms which would be considered autotrophic and the producers in their respective food webs?

• Protista and Fungi

• Archaea and Animalia

• Plantae and Protista

• Animalia and Plantae

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Which of the following sets of characteristics shown above are shared by members of both Kingdom Eubacteria and Kingdom Plantae?

• I, III and IV

• I, II and III

• I, II and IV

• II, III and IV

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