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Who are the 3 key names in taxonomy?
Aristotle, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin
List the 3 domains
Chordata
What is another term for derived traits?
Derived characteristics/traits are synapomorphies
What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Who subdivided animals into two categories: those with blood (vertebrates) and those without blood (invertebrates).
Aristotle
List the 6 kingdoms. Which ones are prokaryotic?
Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea, Bacteria. Bacteria and Archaea are prokaryotic.
What are Aves? What are 2 characteristics of the Aves class?
Birds - Have feathers, warm blooded and lay eggs
What does the bottom/root of a clade represent?
Common ancestor
What is the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere?
Nitrogen
Who introduced the concept of common ancestry?
Charles Darwin
Which kingdom includes organisms such as algae and protozoa.
Protista
Cats would be part of which order and family?
Which is the outgroup?
A. Mushroom
B. Yeast
C. Amoeba
D. Mold
Amoeba
Which subatomic particle has a negative charge?
Electron
What 2 major contributions did Carl Linnaeus have?
- Binomial Nomenclature
- Introduced the concept of hierarchical classification
Names the 3 primary groups within the plantae kingdom
Nonvascular plants, seedless vascular plants, vascular seed plants
List the first 4 levels of taxa for an insect
Eukarya
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Which of the following would not be an example of a clade
Presence of a backbone, Feathers, Amniota, Flying, Carnivora
Flying
Which process converts glucose into pyruvate?
Glycolysis
What other idea did Aristotle come up with?
classified animals according to their environment: terrestrial, aquatic, or aerial.
Some kingdoms are heterotrophic while other are autotrophic. Which kingdoms are heterotrophic, meaning they consume other organisms for energy?
The Animalia and Fungi kingdoms
What is the binomial name for a grey wolf?
Canis lupus
Vertebrates is a clade while invertebrates is not. Why might this be?
This is basically everything that's not a vertebrate, so it's defined by exclusion. It lumps together tons of unrelated groups like insects, mollusks, jellyfish, etc.
In which part of the human body would you find the alveoli?
In the lungs