Biology: The Dynamics of Life, California Edition

Chapter 17: Organizing Life's Diversity

Organizing Life's Diversity

1.
The evolutionary history of a species is its _____.
A)phylogeny
B)biodiversity
C)extinction
D)taxonomy
2.
A system for naming species in which two words are used to name an organism is _____.
A)fan diagramming
B)cladistics
C)dichotomous keying
D)binomial nomenclature
3.
Biologists use ______________ to create a cladogram.
A)discretionary
B)derived traits
C)behavioral
D)pedigrees
4.
The science of grouping and naming organisms is _____.
A)phylogeny
B)classification
C)nomenclature
D)taxonomy
5.
Linnaeus used similarities in _________ to determine relationships among organisms.
A)cladistics
B)classification
C)structure
D)phylogeny
6.
A heterotrophic eukaryote associated with the decomposition of dead organisms is a(n) _____.
A)bacterium
B)protist
C)herbivore
D)fungus
7.
A group of related classes of plants is a _____.
A)kingdom
B)taxon
C)division
D)database
8.
When organisms are classified within the same group, it can be assumed that they have a common __________.
A)phylogeny
B)phylum
C)division
D)class
9.
The method used to construct a hypothetical evolutionary tree is ____.
A)DNA sequencing
B)statistical analysis
C)biochemistry
D)cladistics
10.
The placing of information or objects into groups based on certain similarities is _____.
A)speciation
B)classification
C)phylogeny
D)biochemical analysis
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