Oceanography: Diversity of Life

What biological entity dominates the ocean ecosystem with the highest entity count?

• Plankton/Algae

• Plants

• Fish

• Viruses

Which of these is innate?

• Cognitive Mapping

• Fixed Action Patterns

• Associative/Operant Conditioning

• Classical Conditioning

Who came up with the Theory of Evolution?

• Charles Darwin

• Arthur Tansley

• Alfred Wallace

• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Which defensive adaptation requires multiple species (2 or more) to copy each other's visual patterns?

• Aposematic Coloration

• Mullerian Mimicry

• Cryptic Coloration

• Batesian Mimicry

The two-word organism naming classification system is called (a)   Nomenclature.

Which is most resistant to evolutionary pressure?

• Bacteria

• Fish

• Plankton

• Deep Sea Organisms

What is considered to be reproductively isolated?

• Physically separated (By land/bodies of water)

• Breeding that results in infertile offspring

• Different species cannot interbreed

• Different populations cannot breed

What is natural selection?

• Nature decides explicitly which organisms survive and pass on their genes

• The organisms best adapted to their environment survive and pass on their genes

• The organisms least adapted to their environment survive and pass on their genes

• Less favorable traits survive and get passed on in their genes

Which correctly follows the rules of the binomial nomenclature system?

• Utricularia Sandersonii

• Utricularia sandersonii

• Utricularia sandersonii

• Utricularia Sandersonii

Why do we have the binomial nomenclature system?

• It was established long ago; the language is outdated, however ingrained in society

• To replace the tree of evolution; more efficient system

• To require biologists to specialize in the field

• So scientists all over the world can recognize the same species