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Phylogeny

Authored by Lisa Thompson

Science

9th Grade

NGSS covered

Phylogeny
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Which tetrapod is least related to all others?

dog

platypus

tammar wallaby

armadillo

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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How many animals on this cladogram have lungs?

2

3

5

7

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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How many animals on this cladogram have radial symmetry?

1

2

6

9

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When using a cladistic approach to systematics, which of the following is considered most important for classification?

shared derived characters

shared primitive characters

overall phenotypic similarity

analogous primitive characters

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A branching diagram that represents the proposed phylogeny or evolutionary history of a species or group.

kinship

pedigree

genogram

cladogram

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Based on the figure, how long ago was the common ancestor of the European Brown Bear and the Asian Brown Bear?

4.5 hundreds of thousands of years ago

3.5 hundreds of thousands of years ago

2.2 hundreds of thousands of years ago

1.4 hundreds of thousands of years ago

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Based on the figure, which organism is most closely related to A. forsteri?

E. ferus

D. polylepis

G. gallus

E. africanus

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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