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Taxonomy
Phylogeny
Domains
Kingdoms
Classification
100
This is the discipline of naming and grouping organisms.
What is taxonomy?
100
This is a diagram that shows evolutionary relationships, common ancestry, periods during which some characteristics evolved, and the characteristics that groups share.
What is a cladogram?
100
This is the largest group to which any organism can belong.
What is a domain.
100
All living things are grouped in to one of _____ Kingdoms. Their names are:
All living things are grouped in to one of 6 kingdoms. Their names are: Eubacteria, Archaeabacteria, Protista, Plantae, Fungi, Animalia
100
This is a description of the proper format to use when writing a scientific name.
What is using italics where the first letter of the genus is capitalized and the first letter of the species name is lower-case?
200
This is the classification system in which each species is assigned a two part scientific name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
200
This is a characteristic that appears in more recent parts of a lineage, but not in its more ancient (older) parts of the lineage.
What is a derived character?
200
These are _____ (number) domains. They are called:
There are 3 domains. Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya (Eukaryota)
200
This kingdom includes multicellular species that have cell walls made of chitin.
What is kingdom fungi?
200
This is a group of closely related species and the first part of the scientific name in binomial nomenclature.
What is the genus?
300
Which contains more species, an order or a family?
What is an order?
300
This is similarity among organisms due to common ancestry.
What is homology? (or homologous characteristics).
300
Eukarya differs from Archaea and Bacteria because all members of Eukarya have this.
What is a nucleus (nuclear envelope/membrane). Eukaryotes are also larger and have membrane-bound organelles.
300
This kingdom includes unicellular species that live in extreme environments like geothermal vents, hot springs, and geysers.
What is archaeabacteria?
300
This is a group of genera that share many characteristics and that ideally share a single common ancestor.
What is a family?
400
Which includes more species, a phylum or an order?
What is a phylum?
400
A group of organisms that contains a common ancestor and ALL of its descendants is called this.
What is a clade. This can also be called a monophyletic group.
400
These are the two prokaryotic domains.
What are Bacteria and Archaea?
400
This kingdom includes only multicellular autotrophs.
What is kingdom plantae.
400
This is a group of orders that share common features and ideally share a single common ancestor.
What is a class?
500
This is the ideal relationship between taxonomy (grouping) and phylogeny (evolutionary relationships) in the modern system of classification.
What is taxonomy should reflect phylogeny. i.e. Groups of organisms should reflect their evolutionary relationships. i.e. members of the same group should be more closely related to each other than any one is to members of a different group.
500
Fill in the following blanks by using the following taxonomic groups: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, or species. All species in the same ________ share a more recent common ancestor than do all species from the same _______.
Correct answers: 1) genus; family or order or class or phylum or kingdom 2) family; order or class or phylum or kingdom 3) order; class or phylum or kingdom 4) class; phylum or kingdom 5) phylum; kingdom Notice that in the order listed in the question, each group is contained within the previous group and each smaller groups shares (should) a more recent common ancestor.
500
Of the 3 domains, which two share a more recent common ancestor?
Eukarya and Archaea share a more recent common ancestor than either of these shares with Bacteria.
500
All members of this kingdom are unicellular, some are autotrophs and some are heterotrophs. All members of this kingdom have cell walls made of peptidoglycan.
What is Eubacteria?
500
This is the language used to write the scientific name of species throughout the world.
What is Latin? (or "Latinized" words)