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Practice: Comparing Kingdoms

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What term would best be used to complete the Venn diagram above?

a)

mobile

b)

vertebrate

c)

heterotrophic

d)

unicellular

2.

What characteristic could not be used to complete the Venn diagram above?

a)

made of cells

b)

contains DNA

c)

uses ribosomes

d)

has nuclei

3.

Kingdom Eubacteria and Kingdom Archaea contain organisms which were once placed into the same kingdom. While biochemical analysis of their genomes and metabolisms shows that they are significantly different, they were once thought to belong to the same kingdom because they both -

a)

maintain steady metabolisms

b)

contain only prokaryotic organisms

c)

construct proteins using ribosomes and mRNA

d)

act as the main producers in forest biomes

4.

Which kingdoms contain organisms that lack mobility/motility?

***CHECK ALL THAT APPLY***

a)

Eubacteria

b)

Plantae

c)

Protista

d)

Fungi

e)

Animalia

5.

Fish are animals and euglena are protists. One thing that a fish and euglena have in common is that they are both –

a)

eukaryotic

b)

autotrophic

c)

chemosynthetic

d)

vertebrate

6.

Which kingdoms do not contain a nucleus or membrane-bound organelles in their cells?

***CHECK ALL THAT APPLY***

a)

Animalia

b)

Archaebacteria

c)

Eubacteria

d)

Protista

e)

Fungi

7.

Which kingdoms obtain their nutrients ONLY from their surroundings? In other words, they don't make their own food.

***CHECK ALL THAT APPLY***

a)

Animalia

b)

Fungi

c)

Plantae

d)

Protista

e)

Archaebacteria

8.

Which of the following sets of characteristics shown above are shared by members of both Kingdom Eubacteria and Kingdom Plantae?

a)

I, III and IV

b)

I, II and III

c)

I, II and IV

d)

II, III and IV

9.

Which of these would you expect to find in the cells of both a horse and a bacterium?

a)

nucleus

b)

DNA

c)

Golgi bodies

d)

endoplasmic reticulum

10.

Kingdom Protista contains a wide variety of organisms. Some protists are compared to plants while others are more similar to animals. What is one thing that all of the members of Kingdom Protista have in common?

a)

Lay eggs in order to reproduce

b)

Ingest nutrients for all cellular energy

c)

Perform photosynthesis

d)

Made of one or more eukaryotic cells

11.

Which of the following sets of vertebrates would contain the most closely related animals?

a)

Vertebrates in the same family

b)

Vertebrates in the same order

c)

Vertebrates in the same class

d)

Vertebrates in the same phylum

12.

Which of the following groups contains organisms with the greatest degree of differences?

a)

class

b)

domain

c)

phylum

d)

kingdom

13.

Which of the following taxonomic categories contains organisms with the greatest amount of genetic similarities?

a)

kingdom

b)

genus

c)

order

d)

class