CHAPTER 1: BIODIVERSITY

Which of the following was the CORRECT hierarchical classification?

• Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

• Kingdom, Order, Phylum, Class, Domain, Family, Genus, Species

• Domain, Kingdom, Family, Class, Order, Phylum, Genus, Species

• Class, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Domain, Family, Genus, Species

What are the 3 domains?

• Archaea, Bacteria and Eubacteria

• Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya

• Archaea, Protista and Eubacteria

• Animalia, Plantae and Fungi

Who proposed the three-domain system?

• Aristotle

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Robert Harding Whittaker

• Carl Woese

What would Vibrio cholerae, a Gram-negative bacteria look like under a microscope?

• Purple rod-shaped

• Pink comma-shaped

• Pink spiral-shaped

• Purple spherical-shaped

Which of the following structures can be found in the body of a fungus?

• Sorus

• Rhizome

• Prothallus

• Mycelium

The dominant generation in the life cycle of a bryophyte is the ___________.

• haploid gametophyte

• diploid gametophyte

• haploid sporophyte

• diploid sporophyte

Seed plants can be classified into two main groups:

• Ginkgophyta and Gnetophyta

• Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

• Bryophytes and Pteridophytes

• Cycadophyta and Coniferophyta

Which of the following pairs of phyla and their organisms is wrongly paired?

• Apicomplexa – Paramecium sp.

• Phaeophyta – Fucus sp.

• Chlorophyta – Chlamydomonas sp.

• Euglenophyta – Euglena sp.

The characteristics of _________ are coelomate, have a water vascular system and become radial symmetry in adult form.

• Cnidaria

• Chordata

• Mollusca

• Echinodermata

The following characteristics are CORRECT about organism A except _________.

• They have a complete digestive system

• The body is unsegmented

• They are diploblastic

• They are pseudocoelomate