Phylogenies

Phylogenies

10th - 12th Grade

7 Qs

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Phylogenies

Phylogenies

Assessment

Quiz

Biology

10th - 12th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-LS4-2, HS-LS4-1

Standards-aligned

Created by

Charles Martinez

FREE Resource

7 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

If you were building a phylogenetic tree of cats, which of the following would be the best outgroup?

wolf

domestic cat

frog

leopard

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In a comparison of birds and mammals, the condition of having four limbs is

a shared ancestral character

a shared derived character

a character useful for distinguishing birds from mammals

an example of analogy rather than homology

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

The yellow, blue, and read bubbles represent different phylogenies. How would you describe the yellow bubble?

monophyletic

paraphyletic

polyphyletic

anaphyletic

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Both butterflies and bats have the ability to fly due to wing development. How would you describe the evolutionary relationship of the animal's wings?

polytomy

homoplasies

analogous

vestigial

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

On a phylogenetic tree, what do the branch lengths represent?

The age of the organisms

amount of genetic change since divergence

amount of genetic change since convergence

The age of divergence

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Which protein has the fastest molecular clock?

fibrinopeptides

hemoglobin

cytochrome C

divergence

7.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is horizontal gene transfer? (select all that apply)

the process of chromosome creation by recombination

increase of genetic variation by meiosis

injection of DNA/RNA from virus to host

exchange of transposible elements from one genome to another