Ecology-Organizing Life’s Diversity-Ch. 17

Which of the following describes the organism shown above?

• Multicellular producer

• Unicellular consumer

• Unicellular producer

• Multicellular Consumer

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A flaw in Aristotle’s classification system was that ________.

• it included too many organisms

• it did not show natural relationships

• large organisms were not included

• it was based on Greek instead of Latin

Based on the structures of the organisms listed below, which of the following is most closely

related to a domestic cat?

• dog

• duck

• lion

• snake

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A group of prokaryotes that often live in

extreme environments are the ________.

• protists

• eubacteria

• fungi

• archaebacteria

Linnaeus based most of his classification system on

• cell organelles

• biochemical comparisons

• structural comparisons

• embryology

Which of the following pairs of terms are most closely related?

• Linnaeus—DNA analysis

• Aristotle—binomial nomenclature

• protist—prokaryote

• taxonomy—classification

Unlike a pedigree, a cladogram ________

• shows ancestry

• shows hypothesized phylogeny

• indicates ancestry from two parents

• explains relationships

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Which taxon contains the others?

• Family

• Order

• Species

• Phylum

Which of the following would be a useful characteristic to use in cladistics?

• derived characteristic

• similar habitat

• mutations

• random differences

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All general of dogs are classified in the taxon called a _______.

• classification

• family

• binomial nomenclature

• fungi