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CLASSIFYING LIFE

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identifying and organizing is not important to managing God’s creation.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

In Genesis 2, God ______ Adam to name the animals.

a)

helped

b)

commanded

c)

asked

3.

(a)   is the science of classifying organisms.

4.

Which of the following is true of taxonomic kingdoms?

a)

Their number may change in the light of new information.

b)

They are the highest level of taxon within the current classification system.

c)

Both A and B

d)

Neither A and B

5.

Cladistic attempts to

a)

group organisms according to their evolutionary history.

b)

group organisms according to their created kinds.

c)

assign scientific names to organisms.

6.

Baraminologists represent the diversity within biological kinds as _______.

a)

a phylogenetic tree

b)

a clade

c)

an orchard of life

7.

The modern taxonomic system is a hierarchical system in which each level of classification consists of increasingly specific groups.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The term species is hard to define because there are exceptions to every definition.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

An organism’s DNA allows for a great deal of variation, but there is no evidence that any organism is now evolving or has evolved into a different kind of organism.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

He is known as the Father of a modern taxonomy.

(a)  

11.

In binomial nomenclature, the first part of a scientific name gives the ______, while the second identifies its ______.

a)

genus - species

b)

genus - family

c)

species - genus

12.

Each group in a classification system is called a(n) ______.

a)

taxi

b)

taxon

c)

taxes

13.

A species may consist of two or more _______.

a)

varieties

b)

offspring

c)

parents

14.

On a phylogenetic tree, all organisms that have supposedly evolved from a common ancestor are collectively known as a(n) _______.

a)

clade

b)

group

c)

extinct

15.

There are (a)   levels of taxonomic classification.