Terms
Classification
Kingdoms
Evolution
Earth's History
100
When the half-life of carbon (C-14) is used to determine the age of a fossil it is called...
What is radiometric dating
100
The broadest of all the taxa categories...
What is domain
100
Mushrooms belong to this kingdom...
What is Fungi
100
Two distantly related animals that are similar in appearance and behavior most likely evolved due to...
What is convergent evolution
100
Earth's early atmosphere most likely lacked..
What is oxygen
200
Organisms that produce their own energy are...
What are autotrophs
200
According to the biological species concept, a species is defined as...
What is a group that can breed and produce fertile offspring
200
Prokaryotic cells would only be found in these two kingdoms...
What is Archaebacteria and Eubacteria
200
A single species that has evolved into several different forms that live in different was has undergone...
What is adaptive radiation
200
Most fossils are found in...
What is sedimentary rock
300
The evolutionary history of a species is called its...
What is phylogeny
300
This system provides all species with a specific name
What is binomial nomenclature
300
Eubacteria can be found in these three shapes...
What is coccus, bacillus, spirillum
300
A curved beak in a bird that eats from a single species of flower is most likely the result of...
What is coevolution
300
Trilobites are useful as index fossils because each species existed for a (short or long) period of time over a (small or wide) geographic range.
What is short and wide (no mom jokes please)
400
Plants that have needles and cones are...
What are gymnosperms
400
Mammalia is the _______ in which humans belong
What is class
400
Both Protista and Plantae contain this similar structure in their cell walls...
What is cellulose
400
When a species evolves at a slow and steady pace it is called...
What is gradualism
400
The three geologic time scales in order are...
What is eons > era > periods
500
This theory proposes that eukaryotic cells arose from communities formed by prokaryotes...
What is endosymbiotic theory
500
Who was the first person to classify living things and what was wrong with his system?
Aristotle's system was only made of two groups plants and animals (there are 4 other kingdoms!) and animals were groups by there mode of transportation (walk,swim,fly). The system was not specific enough for all of life organisms.
500
Archaebacteria are classified in these three different groups... (name at least 2)
What are methanogens, halophiles, thermoacidophiles
500
Species that experience long, stable periods interrupted by brief periods of rapid evolutionary change undergo this type of evolution...
What is punctuated equilibrium
500
An experiment run by Miller and Urey combined inorganic gases and heat/electricity to form these organic compounds...
What are amino acids
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