Taxonomy

• Prove that marine evolution occurs

• Discover and name every marine organism on Earth

• Designate latin as the universal language for all of marine biology

• identify marine organisms and find evolutionary relationships between them

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The gray squirrel, Eastern fox squirrel, and red squirrel are all different species of squirrels. Why is having a scientific name for each species of an organism important?

• To prevent existing named prganisms from having their names changed as they become extinct

• To keep the classification system from being altered as new organisms are discovered

• To allow organisms to be placed in many classification levels at the same time

• To standardize the naming and organization of organisms to avoid confusion

The Linnaean taxonomix system classifies organisms into divisions called taxa. If two organisms belong to the same taxonomic group, they are related. Similarity at which of these levels indicated the closest relationship?

• Class

• Order

• Genus

• Kingdom

• Solitary with a wingspan greater than 35 cm

• Solitary with a wingspan less than 35 cm

• Colonial with a wingspan greater than 35cm

• Colonial with a wingspan less than 35 cm

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Which two species are most closely related?

• Northern cricket frog and bullfrog

• Northern leopard frog and bullfrog

• Northern cricket frog and green treefrog

• Northern leopard frog and green treefrog

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At what classification level do the Northern Cricket frog and Northern leopard frog diverge?

• Order

• Family

• Genus

• Species

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What is the scientific name of the Green Treefrog?

• Anura Hylidae

• cinerea

• Hyla cinerea

• Anura cinerea

• Stemmiulida is more closely related to Merocheta than Penicillata is to Merocheta

• Spirostreptida is more closely related to Glomerida than Sphaerotheriida is to Glomerida

• Polyzoniida is more closely related to Glomeridesmida than Shaerotheriida is to Glomeridesmida.

• Merocheta is more closely related to Glomeridesmids than Glomerida is to Glomeridesmida

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• 338 families

  28 genera

  4,360 species

• 28 families

  338 genera

  4,360 species

• 338 families

  4,360 genera

  28 species

• 28 families

  4,360 genera

  338 species

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A researcher determines an organism to be eukaryotic, unicellular, and autotrophic. In which taxonomic group should this organism be classified?

• Bacteria

• Protista

• Archaea

• Animalia

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