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Domain 3: Classification and Phylogeny

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the science of organizing, classifying and naming living things.
a)
taxonomy
b)
taxadermy
c)
taxicab
d)
toxicology
2.
An organism identified with binomial nomenclature includes which two taxa?
a)
class and order
b)
family and genus
c)
genus and species
d)
kingdom and phylum
3.
Phylogeny is:
a)
Analysis of the evolutionary or ancestral relationships among taxa
b)
Classifying animals by structure
c)
Analyzing mutations in organisms
d)
Determining when animals evolved
4.
Term given to describe the 2 name naming system is:
a)
dichotmous key
b)
binomial nomenclature
c)
2 scientific names
d)
binomial key
5.

(Taxonomy) Which level of classification is the most broad?

a)

Species

b)

Class

c)

Domain

d)

Kingdom

6.

(Taxonomy) Which level is the most specific?

a)

Domain

b)

Family

c)

Species

d)

Genus

7.

What could be defined as "A group of similar genuses?"

a)

Family

b)

Order

c)

Species

d)

Phylum

8.

What could be defined as "A group of similar classes?"

a)

Phylum

b)

Order

c)

Kindom

d)

Genus

9.

"A branched diagram that shows relationships between organisms and common ancestors" is the definition of a.....

a)

Cladogram

b)

Dichotomous Key

10.

A group of species that includes an ancestral species and all its descendants.

a)

Cladogram

b)

Binomial nomenclature

c)

Clade

d)

Taxonomy

11.

The name given to each species, consisting of its genus and its species label

a)

Scientific Name

b)

Dichotomous Key

c)

Cladistics

d)

Binomial Nomenclature

12.

Domain of unicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls that do not contain peptidoglycan

a)

Domain

b)

Archaea

c)

Fungi

d)

Taxonomy

13.

Kingdom composed of heterotrophs; many obtain energy and nutrients from dead organic matter

a)

Fungi

b)

Binomial Nomenclature

c)

Clade

d)

Parsimony

14.

a key for the identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters

a)

Clade

b)

Dichotomous Key

c)

Binomial Nomenclature

d)

Parsimony

15.

Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms

a)

Cladogram

b)

Scientific Name

c)

Binomial nomenclature

d)

Derived Character

16.

trait that appears in recent parts of a lineage, but not in its older members

a)

Binomial Nomenclature

b)

Cladistics

c)

Derived Character

d)

Scientific Name

17.

A FAMILY of organisms would be grouped into a LARGER taxonomic level of a

a)

phylum

b)

class

c)

genus

d)

order

18.

Unicellular, prokaryotic, autotroph

a)

bacteria

b)

protist

c)

animal

d)

plant

19.

unicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph

a)

bacteria

b)

protist

c)

animal

d)

fungi

20.

multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, no cell wall

a)

protist

b)

plant

c)

animal

d)

fungi

21.

eukaryotic, multicellular, chitin cell wall, absorptive heterotroph

a)

protist

b)

animal

c)

plant

d)

fungi

22.

multicellular, eukaryotic, cellulose cell wall, autotroph

a)

protist

b)

plant

c)

animal

d)

fungi

23.

The organism is made up of one cell.

a)

Vertebrate

b)

Invertebrate

c)

Segmented

d)

Unicellular

24.

The organism is made up many cells.

a)

Multicellular

b)

Unicellular

c)

Autotrophic

d)

Heterotrophic

25.

Organisms can make their own food.This is primarily done through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.

a)

Prokaryotes

b)

Eukaryotes

c)

Autotrophic

d)

Heterotrophic

26.

Organisms get their nutrition from an outside source. This is usually done by eating or absorbing nutrients.

a)

Prokaryotes

b)

Eukaryotes

c)

Autotrophic

d)

Heterotrophic

27.

Have a nucleus and othermembrane-bound organelles

a)

Prokaryotes

b)

Eukaryotes

c)

Autotrophic

d)

Heterotrophic

28.

Do NOT have a nucleus nor other membrane-bound organelles in their cells. Ex: Bacteria

a)

Prokaryotes

b)

Eukaryotes

c)

Autotrophic

d)

Heterotrophic

29.

A group that organisms are placed in for classification.

a)

Taxonomy

b)

Binomial nomenclature

c)

Taxon

30.

The study of evolutionary history

a)

Phylogeny

b)

Clade

c)

Cladogram

d)

Derived characteristic

31.

A trait that arose in the most recent common ancestor and was passed to the next descendant.

a)

Phylogeny

b)

Clade

c)

Cladogram

d)

Derived characteristic

32.

The emergent growth or extinction of large clades(groups) of organisms like dinosaurs or mammals.

a)

Macroevolutionary pattern

b)

Background extinction

c)

mass extinction

33.

The extinction of organisms that fail to adapt in the normal course of time.

a)

Macroevolutionary pattern

b)

Background extinction

c)

mass extinction

34.

The extinction of organisms on grand scale - global death.

a)

Macroevolutionary pattern

b)

Background extinction

c)

mass extinction

35.

Slow and steady evolution.

a)

gradualism

b)

punctuated equilibrium

c)

adaptive radiation

d)

convergent evolution

e)

coevolution

36.

Long period of little or no change followed by sudden changes.

a)

gradualism

b)

punctuated equilibrium

c)

adaptive radiation

d)

convergent evolution

e)

coevolution

37.

Single species evolves in to multiple new species as they move to new environments

a)

gradualism

b)

punctuated equilibrium

c)

adaptive radiation

d)

convergent evolution

e)

coevolution

38.

When tow species that are unrelated arrive at similar adaptation. Ex. Flightless birds.

a)

gradualism

b)

punctuated equilibrium

c)

adaptive radiation

d)

convergent evolution

e)

coevolution

39.

When two species evolve in response to each other such as the snake and the salamander.

a)

gradualism

b)

punctuated equilibrium

c)

adaptive radiation

d)

convergent evolution

e)

coevolution

40.

A virus is

a)

living

b)

non living

c)

dead

41.

What structure determines the shape of the virus?

a)

capsid

b)

nucleic acid

c)

spikes

d)

envelope

42.

When viral DNA integrates with host cell DNA, this is called a:

a)

capsid

b)

bacteriophage

c)

retrovirus

d)

provirus

43.

During which cycle does a virus's genetic information become a part of the host cell's genetic information?

a)

Lytic

b)

Lysogenic

44.

A virus that goes through the ______ cycle will allow you to feel symptoms immediately due to the cells lysing.

a)

Lytic

b)

Lysogenic

45.

When given a vaccine, your body recognizes it as an invader and builds _________ against the virus.

a)

lysogens

b)

capsids

c)

antibodies

d)

immunoglobulins