Domain 3: Classification and Phylogeny

What is the science of organizing, classifying and naming living things.

• taxonomy
• taxadermy
• taxicab
• toxicology

An organism identified with binomial nomenclature includes which two taxa?

• class and order
• family and genus
• genus and species
• kingdom and phylum

Phylogeny is:

• Analysis of the evolutionary or ancestral relationships among taxa
• Classifying animals by structure
• Analyzing mutations in organisms
• Determining when animals evolved

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Term given to describe the 2 name naming system is:

• dichotmous key
• binomial nomenclature
• 2 scientific names
• binomial key

(Taxonomy) Which level of classification is the most broad?

• Species

• Class

• Domain

• Kingdom

(Taxonomy) Which level is the most specific?

• Domain

• Family

• Species

• Genus

What could be defined as "A group of similar genuses?"

• Family

• Order

• Species

• Phylum

What could be defined as "A group of similar classes?"

• Phylum

• Order

• Kindom

• Genus

"A branched diagram that shows relationships between organisms and common ancestors" is the definition of a.....

• Cladogram

• Dichotomous Key

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A group of species that includes an ancestral species and all its descendants.

• Cladogram

• Binomial nomenclature

• Clade

• Taxonomy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2