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| 1 | The first person to classify animals in a way that still makes sense today was… |
 | A) | Linnaeus |
| B) | Haeckel |
| C) | Aristotle |
| D) | Hennig |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 2 | The broadest category in the system of classification, below kingdom, is the phylum. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 3 | In the Linnaean system of scientific nomenclature, a single species is identified by a binomial, which consists of the following: |
| A) | Phylum and class |
| B) | Class and order |
| C) | Family and genus |
| D) | Genus and species |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 4 | The largest group or taxa is the… |
| A) | Kingdom |
| B) | Family |
| C) | Order |
| D) | Genus |
| E) | Species |
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| 5 | The branches of a cladogram represent real lineages that occurred in the evolutionary past. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 6 | In Lake Baikal, there exists the world’s only freshwater seal. It lives nowhere else. This is an example of… |
| A) | An endemic species |
| B) | A homologous species |
| C) | A cosmopolitan species |
| D) | A phylogenetic species |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 7 | The species concept includes all of the following ideas, with the exception of… |
| A) | Reproductive community |
| B) | Smallest distinct grouping |
| C) | Common evolutionary descent and gene pool |
| D) | Geographic range |
| E) | All of the above are correct |
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| 8 | Two different monophyletic groups that share common ancestry with each other more recently than either does with other taxa are known as… |
| A) | Symplesiomorphies |
| B) | Synapomorphies |
| C) | Subspecies |
| D) | Sister groups |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 9 | A polytypic species contains one subspecies whose subspecific name is a repetition of the species epithet and one or more additional subspecies whose names differ. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 10 | For sexually reproducing populations, interbreeding is critical for maintaining a reproductive community. For organisms whose reproduction is strictly asexual, reproductive community entails occupation of a particular evolutionary niche. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 11 | The biological species concept has several problems, one of them being the emphasis on interbreeding as the criterion of reproductive community. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 12 | Phylogenetic analysis depends upon finding among organisms, shared features that are inherited from a common ancestor. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 13 | The examination of the varying shapes and sizes of organisms, including their developmental origins is… |
| A) | Phylogenetic morphology |
| B) | Comparative cytology |
| C) | Analytical anatomy |
| D) | Comparative morphology |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 14 | Birds and butterflies both have wings. However, they do not share a recent, common ancestor. Therefore the possession of wings in this case is called… |
| A) | Homology |
| B) | Homoplasy |
| C) | Polarity |
| D) | Ancestry |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 15 | Comparative biochemistry compares the sequences of amino acids in proteins as well as… |
| A) | Triglycerides sequences |
| B) | Nucleotide sequences |
| C) | Carbohydrate chains |
| D) | Ribosomes |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 16 | Phylogenetic systematics was first proposed by… |
| A) | Linnaeus |
| B) | Aristotle |
| C) | Hennig |
| D) | Ray |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 17 | A taxon is considered to be monophyletic if it includes the most recent common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 18 | The hierarchical rankings within the Eukarya are as follows: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Order, Class, Family, Genus, and Species. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 19 | From a cladistic perspective, the term reptile would NOT include both lizards and birds. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 20 | An ancestral character shared by members of a clade is called a symplesiomorphy. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 21 | The phylogenetic species concept includes sexually and asexually reproducing organisms and includes polyphyletic groups. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |
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| 22 | An alternative to Linnean taxonomy is called |
| A) | Phylogeny |
| B) | PhyloCode |
| C) | Cladophen |
| D) | Codophile |
| E) | None of the above is correct |
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| 23 | Molecular phylogenetic results place four phyla classified as deuterostomes in the Protostomia, with two major monophyletic groups called the Ecdysozoa and Lophotrochozoa. |
| A) | True |
| B) | False |