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WorksheetsCommon.Assessment.2.Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Examine the following cladogram. Who is more closely related?
Flies and Beetles
Flies, Wasps, Bees, Ants
Flies, Butterflies, Moths
Beetles, butterflies, moths
Examine the following cladogram. What organisms would contain the characteristic of being a common mammal ancestor.
Sunfish & Newt
Lizard & Bear
Bear and Chimpanzee
Lamprey & Sunfish
When using a dichotomous key to identify organisms, what do we look at in that table?
Environment
The different types organisms
Weather Patterns
Physical Features/Characteristics
What is Differential Reproductive Success?
Where organisms have favorable traits, survive, and reproduce.
Trait obtained due to environmental conditions during a lifetime.
Trait passed on to offspring.
Production of more offspring by individuals with a certain trait that will survive, reproduce
What is the science of organizing, classifying, and naming living things?
Taxonomy
Taxidermy
Toxicology
Technetium
Why is taxonomy and classification necessary for identification?
Avoid confusion
So that scientists can name living organisms after themselves
Standardized naming and classification.
So that they can have cool names.
Examine the dichotomous key of leaves. Identify what kind of tree the leaf has for the unknown leaf.
Ungnadia speciosa
Sophora secundiflora
Salix nigra
Quercus laceyi
What are behavioral adaptations?
The body parts of an animal that help it survive
The actions that organisms do to survive.
The anatomy of an organism that helps it survive
The way an organism responds to the environment.
What are structural/physical adaptations?
The way an organism responds to the environment.
The anatomy of an animal that helps it to survive.
The actions that organisms conduct to survive.
The physical features of an organism that help it survive.
What are physiological adaptations?
The physical features of an organism that help it survive.
An internal body process that helps regulate survival of the organism.
The actions of the organism that help it survive.
The body parts of an organism that help it survive.
Gene flow tends to_______genetic variation (diveristy).
Increase
Stabilize (balance)
Decrease
Exaggerate
What is gene flow?
The movement of genes into or out of a population.
Random changes in gene frequency from generation to generation.
When the size of a population is severely reduced due to a natural disaster.
Decrease in genetic variation when a portion of the population creates a new colony.
What are structures that are similar in related organisms because they were inherited from a common ancestor?
Analogous Structures
Vestigial Structures
Homologous Structures
Fossil Structure
What is reproductive fitness?
The ability to have great power over mates.
The ability of individuals to pass on their genes to other generations.
The ability to compete for mates.
The ability to have an inseparable relationship with your mate.
Examine the cladogram. What organism would have similar DNA with the penguin?
Chicken
Turtle
Tuna
Dog
