State birds
Vocabulary
WILD CARD!
Common name?
True or false?
100
Massachusetts, Black-capped Chickadee.
100
Speciation.
When a species splits into two.
100
List the levels of organization for organisms.
Cells, Tissues, Organs, Organ Systems, Organism.
100
Vulpes vulpes
100
All mammals are vertebrates.
True.
200
Rhode Island, Rhode Island Red.
200
Gene Flow.
Member moves to population.
200
The chemical used to preserve dead bodies.
Formaldehyde.
200
Carcharodon carcharias
200
All birds have capitalized names.
True.
300
New Mexico, Greater Roadrunner.
300
Phylogeny.
Evolutionary history of a species.
300
If two species share a similar structure for differing purposes NOT from a common ancestor, it is defined as a _________ structure.
Analogous.
300
Archilochus colubris
300
Darwin was the first to pioneer study of genes and inheritance.
False, Darwin had no knowledge or genes or inheritance.
400
Arizona, Cactus Wren.
400
Clade.
A group of species that includes an ancestrial species and all of its descendants.
400
Who is Darwin and who is ARW?
Wallace.
Darwin.
400
Ursus americanus
400
All vertebrates have an endoskeleton.
True.
500
Name at least two states.
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia.
500
Monophyletic
A single evolutionary line.
500
Describe two features used today in binomial nomenclature.
The genus is always the first part of the name, the second always unique for the species within the genus, first letter of genus is always capitalized, entire species is italicized.
500
Larus smithsonianus
500
Clams are vertebrates.
False.