Unit 12 Review

Having a standard taxonomic system benefits the scientific community by allowing scientists from all over the world to do which of the following?

• Have a common system for the classification of locations containing fossils

• Use a similar system to classify the impact of removing species from ecosystems

• Have a common understanding in the classification of organisms

• Understand how other scientists classify predator-prey relationships

Which categories of the classification system are used in binomial nomenclature?

• Domain and kingdom

• Genus and species

• Class and order

• Phylum and family

Which one of the following is written correctly?

• Lupinus Texensis

• Lupinus texensis

• Lupinus texensis

• lupinus texensis

Which of the following is in order from least specific to most specific?

• Genus, family, order, class

• Class, order, species, genus

• Kingdom, phylum, class, order

• Class, phylum, kingdom

Which of the following categories of the taxonomic naming system is the most closely related?

• Kingdom

• Class

• Order

• Species

The following binomial names for species in the same phylum, Ciliophora, are listed here: Paramecium aurelia, Paramecium caudatum, Paramecium bursaria, Paramecium multimicronucleatum.

Although these organisms are in the same phylum, they are classified as different…

• Genus

• Species

• Kingdom

• Class

Which kingdom uses photosynthesis for nutrition?

• Animalia

• Plantae

• Fungi

• Protista

Which of the following category of organisms has no nucleus (prokaryote)?

• Animalia

• Protista

• Bacteria

• Plantae

Which of the following category does not have a cell wall?

• Animalia

• Protista

• Bacteria

• Plantae

A student designed the chart below to classify different organisms into four groups.

According to the student’s classification chart, an organism with no wings and four legs would belong to which group?

• Group A

• Group B

• Group C

• Group D