Animals in Our Lives Review

What is the definition of domestication?

• The adaptation of a plant or animal from a wild or natural state to life in close association with humans

• The orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

• A class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic

• A class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name

What is the meaning of taxonomy?

• The adaptation of a plant or animal from a wild or natural state to life in close association with humans

• The orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

• A class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic

• A class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name

What does the term 'genus' refer to?

• The adaptation of a plant or animal from a wild or natural state to life in close association with humans

• The orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

• A class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic

• A class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name

How is a 'species' defined?

• The adaptation of a plant or animal from a wild or natural state to life in close association with humans

• The orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

• A class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic

• A class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name

What is the purpose of binomial nomenclature?

• To adapt plants and animals from a wild or natural state to life in close association with humans

• To classify plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

• To group plants and animals based on common characteristics

• To give each species a unique scientific name

What is a scientific name?

• The adaptation of a plant or animal from a wild or natural state to life in close association with humans

• The orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

• A taxonomic name

• A class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name

How are breeds defined?

• The adaptation of a plant or animal from a wild or natural state to life in close association with humans

• The orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

• A group of usually domesticated animals or plants presumably related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characters

• A class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name

What is selective breeding?

• The adaptation of a plant or animal from a wild or natural state to life in close association with humans

• The process of modifying the characteristics of living things especially to enhance one or more desirable traits by selection in breeding controlled by humans

• A key for the identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters

• A class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name

What is a dichotomous key used for?

• The adaptation of a plant or animal from a wild or natural state to life in close association with humans

• The orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

• A key for the identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters

• A class of individuals having common attributes and designated by a common name

What is the purpose of taxonomy?

• To adapt plants and animals from a wild or natural state to life in close association with humans

• To classify plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

• To group plants and animals based on common characteristics

• To give each species a unique scientific name