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WorksheetsPR2024-BioDiv-Phase1
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Biodiversity level addressing the variety of species found within certain area.
Ecological
Taxonomic
Genetic
Ecosystem
First recorded western scholar to propose a classification system of living beings.
Aristotle
Cuvier
Lamarck
Darwin
Scientist who coined the terms Prokaryote and Eukaryote.
Chatton
Heackel
Woese
Linnaeus
The scientific discipline of describing, classifying, and naming organisms.
Phenetics
Taxonomy
Cladistics
Systematics
The current taxonomic classification system includes ____ Domains and ____ Kingdoms of nature.
6 & 3
3 & 3
3 & 6
6 & 6
Phenetics is known as numerical taxonomy and is based on phenotypic similarities regardless of whether species share a direct common ancestor or not.
True
False
The difference between a phylogenetic tree and a cladogram is that the former groups species according to their physical similarities and the latter shows the evolutionary kinship of different species.
True
False
A phylogenetic systematists would say that dolphins are mammals and not elasmobranch fishes because they share characteristics with other mammals, and these can be traced back to a common ancestor.
True
False
Dichotomous keys are tools used to identify organisms based on definitions of morphological characters according to whether they have or do not have a certain trait.
True
False
Once a scientific name has been assigned to a species, it is definitive and cannot be changed.
True
False
Eukaryotic organisms with chitin-containing cell wall, mostly multicellular heterotrophs. They secrete enzymes for nutrient absorption.
Animalia
Archaea
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Eukaryotic organisms that do not have a cell wall, they are multicellular heterotrophs.
Animalia
Archaea
Protista
Bacteria
Plantae
Prokaryotic organisms whose cell wall contains peptidoglycan, autotrophic or heterotrophic.
Animalia
Archaea
Protista
Bacteria
Plantae
Eukaryotic organisms with cell walls composed of cellulose, chloroplasts, and autotrophs.
Animalia
Archaea
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Eukaryotic organisms, mostly unicellular heterotrophic, some photosynthetic unicellular or multicellular.
Animalia
Archaea
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Prokaryotic organisms, usually extremophiles, genetically closer to eukaryotes, heterotrophic or autotrophic.
Bacteria
Archaea
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
1) Kingdom
2) Order
3) Species
4) Domain
5) Class
6) Genus
7) Phylum
8) Family
The previous image shows a taxonomic classification. Match each letter in the image with the number of the corresponding classification level.
H-3, G-6, F-8, E-2, D-5, C-7, B-1, A-4
H-4, G-1, F-7, E-5, D-2, C-8, B-6, A-3
H-4, G-5, F-7, E-1, D-6, C-2, B-8, A-3
H-1, G-5, F-3, E-2, D-6, C-4, B-8, A-7
To which taxonomic rank level "Animalia" belongs to?
Class
Order
Phylum
Empire
Kingdom
To which taxonomic rank level "Mammalia" belongs to?
Class
Order
Phylum
Empire
Kingdom
To which taxonomic rank level "Animalia" belongs to?
Clase
Order
Phylum
Empire
Kingdom
To which taxonomic rank level "Chordata" belongs to?
Class
Order
Phylum
Empire
Kingdom
To which taxonomic rank level "Carnivora" belongs to?
Class
Order
Family
Empire
Kingdom
To which taxonomic rank level "Felidae" belongs to?
Class
Genus
Family
Empire
Kingdom
To which taxonomic rank level "Panthera" belongs to?
Genus
Order
Phylum
Family
Kingdom
To which taxonomic rank level "P. onca" belongs to?
Species
Genus
Family
Empire
Kingdom
