Zoology Review

Order the Taxa from Largest to Smallest

• Genus

• Order

• Species

• Family

• Class

All organisms respond to environmental stimuli, a property known as

• metabolism

• heredity

• irritability

• variation

Imagine you're in a world where organisms within a population are throwing a party, and each one shows up with tiny, unique variations. Which creative process picks out these novel (new) forms, making the party more diverse and interesting?

• gradualism

• multiplication of species

• perpetual change

• natural selection

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Fruit flies are mostly red-eyed, regardless of the environment they were raised in, generation after generation. These flies would be considered _________________

• true breeding

• cross-breeding

• inbreeding

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Guess what? Species don't just stick to the script; they change over time! What's the term for this awesome process?

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

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What is natural selection?

• Animals that have acquired traits to survive and reproduce.

• Animals who pick who they want to mate with.

• People pick the mates for the animals.

• People change the DNA of animals to make them have desired traits.

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LIfe's history has the structure of a branching evolutionary tree, this is called __________

• linneaus classification

• heredity

• phylogeny

• phenotype

What does the contents of fossil nests tell us about past lives of animals?

• How long an individual has lived

• rolled up for protection

• familial behavior

• How an organism came to be

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What does the change in the shape of a feature over time tell us?

• How long an individual has lived

• rolled up for protection

• familial behavior

• How an organism came to be

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What does tooth marks in fossil shells tell us about animals in the past.

• Clues about temperature in the environment

• If there was an ocean there or not

• Plant life in the area

• Who ate who.

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