Biology 10 - Practice self test 3

Match the following

• popular usage

• common name

• segmented digestive system, appendages

• species

• smallest animal

• Protozoa

• a category in classification

• animal characteristics

• the smallest unit of classification

• taxon

Match the following

• largest phylum of animals

• plant characteristics

• classification

• order

• green, conductive tissue, seeds, flowers

• TracheOPHYTA

• largest division of plants

• taxonomy

• groups of families

• Arthropoda

To a taxonomist a plant is the sum total of all its characteristics

• True

• False

Teeth patterns in animals and thorns in plants are examples of characteristics which a taxonomist might observe for keying

• True

• False

Corn is a type of grass

• True

• False

The scientific name of the leopard frog means frog-frog

• True

• False

Probably the easiest classification system to use is the two-kingdom model

• True

• False

Taxonomy is an organizing science used in

• zoology

• botany

• biology

• all of these

Classification systems are

• all the same

• all different

• varied

• none of these

The name given to an organism which causes the least confusion and is the same in any language or in any country is the _______

• popular name

• genus name

• scientific name

• common name