Biological Classification Hierarchy Quiz

Which of the following is the highest level of classification in the hierarchy shown?

• Species

• Genus

• Domain

• Family

What is the level of classification that comes directly below 'Order' in the given hierarchy?

• Class

• Family

• Genus

• Phylum

According to the classification hierarchy in the image, which rank follows immediately after 'Phylum'?

• Kingdom

• Class

• Order

• Genus

What is the correct singular term for 'Species' as used in the classification hierarchy?

• Specie

• Species

• Specimen

• Specious

Which term is used for the plural of 'Genus' in the biological classification system?

• Genuses

• Genera

• Genii

• Genes

Who developed a method of grouping organisms that is still used today in the late 18th century?

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Carl Linnaeus

• Louis Pasteur

What is the second word in binomial nomenclature used to identify a species?

• Genus

• Family

• Species

• Order

What is taxonomy?

• The study of animal behavior

• The classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history

• The branch of biology that groups and names organisms based on studies of their different characteristics

• The study of plant life

What does a cladogram or phylogenetic tree depict?

• The food chain of different species

• The life cycle of a single species

• The evolutionary history of a species based on comparative relationships of structures and comparisons of modern life forms with fossils

• The migration patterns of different species

What is convergent evolution?

• When two or more species affect each other's evolution

• The pattern of evolution in which distantly related organisms evolve similar traits

  (Come together)

• The pattern of evolution in which species that were once similar to an ancestral species diverge or become increasingly distinct

• The change in the morphology of plants that will change the morphology of an herbivore