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WorksheetsUnit 1 Review (Zoology)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the correct way to write the scientific name?
a)
Homo Sapiens(italicized)
b)
Homo sapiens (italicized)
c)
HOMO Sapiens
d)
Homo Sapiens
2.
Who was the man who originated the system of binomial nomenclature?
a)
Karl von Linne
b)
Charles Darwin
c)
William Harvey
d)
Antone Leewenhoek
3.
Zoology is the study of:
a)
biology
b)
plants
c)
people
d)
animals
4.
_____ is the study of taxonomic classification and evolutionary relationships among living things.
a)
Entomology
b)
Embryology
c)
Systematics
d)
Physiology
5.
Darwin observed _____ in the Galapagos Islands; today they are used as a classic example to illustrate great adaptive radiation
a)
finches
b)
beetles
c)
barnacles
d)
tortoises
6.
A change in the frequency of alleles in populations over time is called ______.
a)
adaptive radiation
b)
microevolution
c)
macroevolution
d)
organic evolution
7.
What is the correct sequence from most broad to most specific of the major taxonomic categories?
a)
class, order, family, genus, species, kingdom, domain
b)
domain, species, genus, family, order, class, phylum
c)
phylum, domain, kingdom, class, genus, family, order
d)
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
8.
Which of the following types of animals displays asymmetrical body patterns?
a)
nematods
b)
sponges
c)
insects
d)
echinoderms
9.
Formation of a distinct head is called ______.
a)
anteriorization
b)
dorsalization
c)
cephalization
d)
ventralization
10.
____ characteristics that have arisen since common ancestry with the outgroup.
a)
Derived
b)
Ancestral
c)
Phylogenetic
d)
Hierarchial
11.
This more traditional approach to systematics relies on the assumptions that closely related organisms appear more similar than do distantly related organisms.
a)
cladistics
b)
phylogenetic systematics
c)
paraphyletic grouping
d)
evolutionary systematics
12.
Type of development that includes radial and indeterminate cleavage, an anus that forms in the region of the embryonic blastopore, entercoelous and coelom formation.
a)
systematics
b)
monophyletic
c)
protostome
d)
duterostome
13.
Jean Lamarck proposed a theory of evolution involving
a)
natural selection
b)
organic selection
c)
consistent revolution
d)
inheritance of acquired characteristics
14.
Similar structures in unrelated organisms that arise through convergent evolution are called _____.
a)
analagous structures
b)
nonadaptive structures
c)
homologous structures
d)
differential structures
15.
Pelvic bones in whales are examples of these structures that have no apparent function in modern animals but clearly evolved from functioning structures in ancestors.
a)
differential structures
b)
vestigial structures
c)
homologous structures
d)
non-adaptive structures
16.
Which scientist proposed that forces of wind, rain, rivers, volcanoes, and geological uplift shape the earth today just as they have in the past and the earth could be much older than 6,000 years?
a)
Charles Lyell and James Hutton
b)
Alfred Wallace
c)
Charles Darwin and Thomas Malthus
d)
Jean Lamarck
17.
Found in the between layers and gives rise to the supportive, contractile and blood cells.
a)
mesoderm
b)
endoderm
c)
ectoderm
18.
Gives rise to the gastrodermis, tissues that lines the gut.
a)
ectoderm
b)
endoderm
c)
mesoderm
19.
Gives rise to the epidermis, tissues that line the gut cavity.
a)
ectoderm
b)
endoderm
c)
mesoderm
20.
A change in the genetic makeup of populations of organism over time is a definition of _____.
a)
ecology
b)
evolution
c)
binomial nomenclature
d)
organic evolution
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