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Biological Classification - Part 2
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Q1. Which of the following organisms are LEAST closely related?
A. organisms that share a domain
B. organisms that share a family
C. organisms that share a genus
D. organisms that share a species
Q2. Organisms are the same ___ when they can have offspring, then those have more offspring.
A. Class
B. Family
C. Species
D. Phylum
Q3. The grouping of organisms based on their common ancestors and decent from them is called
A. traditional classification
B. phylogenetics
C. binomial nomenclature
D. evolutionary classification
Q4. Animals, plants, protists and fungus are all found in Domain
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A. Archaea
B. Bacteria
C. Eukarya
Q5. Two plants can be conclusively said to belong to the same species if they:
A. can reproduce freely with each other and form viable seeds
B. have more than 90 percent similar genes
C. look similar and possess identical secondary metabolites
D. have same number of chromo somes
Q6. What is the particular group within a taxonomic system called?
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A. Taxon
B. Linnaean
C. Taxis
Q7. Common names for certain animals can be misleading.
A. True
B. False
Q8. What type of fruit is this?
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A. pome
B. drupe
C. berry
D. modified berry
Q9. Structures in organisms that have the same function due to similar environ- mental pressures.
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A. Analogous Structure
B. Homologous Structure
C. Vestigial Structures
Q10. Which kingdom contains members who are prokaryotic?
A. Archaebacteria and Eubacteria
B. Archaebacteria and Protista
C. Eubacteria and Animalia
D. Eubacteria and Fungi
Q11. A tree is called Quercus alba. alba is the
A. Kingdom
B. Phylum
C. Genus
D. Species
Q12. Whittaker proposed which of the fol- lowing?
A. 5 Kingdom System
B. 3 Domain System
C. 3 Kingdom System
D. 5 Domain System
Q13. Some snake embryos have small buds resembling limbs. These buds disap- pear at later stages of embryonic de- velopment. These observations sug- gest that these snakes -
A. will have offspring with limbs.
B. had a parent with working limbs.
C. evolved from a limbed ancestor.
Q14. Which statement is best supported by the observable structures of the differ- ent humerus bones?
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A. The primates lived in similar envi ronments.
B. The primates shared a common ancestor.
C. The primates interbreed with simi lar organisms in a population.
D. The primates had diets that con sisted of similar types of foods.
Q15. The position and shape of the bones in the forelimbs of four present-day a vertebrates were studied. Two of the organisms seemed to be more closely N relatedtoeachotherthantotheother vertebrates. This relationship was most likely based on evidence using the field of -
A. comparative anatomy
B. DNA sequences
C. biochemistry
D. fossil record
Q16. The kingdom Animalia contains pri marily
A. photosynthetic autotrophs.
B. single-celled heterotrophs.
C. multicellular heterotrophs.
D. protists
Q17. The unicellular prokaryotes that make up the domain Bacteria are also classified in the kingdom
A. Archaebacteria
B. Eudbacteria
C. Fungi
D. Protista
Q18. Although these organisms belong to the same phylum, they are classified as different
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A. families
B. species
C. kingdoms
D. orders
Q19. The ___ (also referred to as blue- greenalgae)havechlorophyllasimilar y togreenplantsandarephotosynthetic autotrophs a
A. cyanobacteria
B. archaebacteria
C. eubacteria
Q20. Whichorganisationaltoollinksorgan- isms by their common ancestor?
A. Dichotomous key
B. Cladogram
Q21. Which of the following gases was likely not present in the atmosphere of the primitive Earth?
A. Methane
B. Oxygen
C. Water
D. Carbon dioxide
Q22. The definition of ___ has changed over time, beginning with Aristotle and continuing through the 1940s.
A. organism
B. family
C. species
Q23. What type of structures are depicted in the above diagram?
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A. homologous
B. vestigial
C. analogous
D. fossil
Q24. Cetaceans are whales and their rel- atives. The diagram shows some fossils of cetaceans.Which statement provides the best evidence that Am- bulocetus natans is an ancestor of Basilosaurus isis?
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A. Homologous structures occur in each fossil.
B. Similar nitrogenous bases are found in the DNA of each fossil.
C. The fossils were found in different locations.
D. The youngest fossil is larger than the older fossils.
Q25. An organism was given scientific name based on what system?
A. Binomial nomenclature
B. Taxonomy
C. Hierarchical
D. Nomenclature
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