WorksheetsPractice: Comparing Kingdoms
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
What term would best be used to complete the Venn diagram above?
mobile
vertebrate
heterotrophic
unicellular
What characteristic could not be used to complete the Venn diagram above?
made of cells
contains DNA
uses ribosomes
has nuclei
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 -
maintain steady metabolisms
contain only prokaryotic organisms
construct proteins using ribosomes and mRNA
act as the main producers in forest biomes
Which kingdoms contain organisms that lack mobility/motility?
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Eubacteria
Plantae
Protista
Fungi
Animalia
Fish are animals and euglena are protists. One thing that a fish and euglena have in common is that they are both –
eukaryotic
autotrophic
chemosynthetic
vertebrate
Which kingdoms do not contain a nucleus or membrane-bound organelles in their cells?
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Animalia
Archaebacteria
Eubacteria
Protista
Fungi
Which kingdoms obtain their nutrients ONLY from their surroundings? In other words, they don't make their own food.
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Animalia
Fungi
Plantae
Protista
Archaebacteria
Which of the following sets of characteristics shown above are shared by members of both Kingdom Eubacteria and Kingdom Plantae?
I, III and IV
I, II and III
I, II and IV
II, III and IV
Which of these would you expect to find in the cells of both a horse and a bacterium?
nucleus
DNA
Golgi bodies
endoplasmic reticulum
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?
Lay eggs in order to reproduce
Ingest nutrients for all cellular energy
Perform photosynthesis
Made of one or more eukaryotic cells
Which of the following sets of vertebrates would contain the most closely related animals?
Vertebrates in the same family
Vertebrates in the same order
Vertebrates in the same class
Vertebrates in the same phylum
Which of the following groups contains organisms with the greatest degree of differences?
class
domain
phylum
kingdom
Which of the following taxonomic categories contains organisms with the greatest amount of genetic similarities?
kingdom
genus
order
class
