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1 | | The first person to classify animals in a way that is still used today was |
| | A) | Linnaeus. |
| | B) | Haeckel. |
| | C) | Aristotle. |
| | D) | Hennig. |
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2 | | Which of the following terms is related to cladistics? |
| | A) | branching tree |
| | B) | nested hierarchy |
| | C) | synapomorphy |
| | D) | polyphyly |
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3 | | In the Linnaean system of naming, a single species is identified by a binomial, which consists of the following two parts: |
| | A) | phylum and class. |
| | B) | class and order. |
| | C) | family and genus. |
| | D) | genus and species. |
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4 | | The source of information about relationships that comes from the study of anatomy is called |
| | A) | phylogenetic morphology. |
| | B) | comparative cytology. |
| | C) | analytical anatomy. |
| | D) | comparative morphology. |
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5 | | The current status of taxonomy is in transition. It is changing from a focus on _________ toward a focus on |
| | A) | evolutionary taxa, cladistic taxa. |
| | B) | cladistic taxa, phylogenetic taxa. |
| | C) | phylogenetic taxa, numerical taxa. |
| | D) | numerical taxa, evolutionary taxa. |
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6 | | While there are many criteria to describe the difference between two species, the biological definition of a species is based on being part of |
| | A) | a population of animals that are in one place. |
| | B) | a population of animals that behave alike. |
| | C) | an interbreeding population of animals. |
| | D) | a population of animals that look alike. |
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7 | | The biological definition of a species is only one of two currently used definitions for the term species; the other definition is the |
| | A) | phylogenetic species concept. |
| | B) | typological species concept. |
| | C) | cladistic species concept. |
| | D) | Linnaean species concept. |
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8 | | Birds have wings, as do beetles. However, they do not share a recent, common ancestor. Therefore the possession of wings is known as |
| | A) | homology. |
| | B) | homoplasy. |
| | C) | polarity. |
| | D) | ancestry. |
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9 | | Comparative biochemistry compares the sequences of amino acids in proteins as well as _____________ to identify characters used to construct cladograms. |
| | A) | triglyceride sequences |
| | B) | nucleotide sequences |
| | C) | carbohydrate chains |
| | D) | ribosomes |
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10 | | Phylogenetic systematics was first proposed by |
| | A) | Linnaeus. |
| | B) | Aristotle. |
| | C) | Hennig. |
| | D) | Ray |
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11 | | 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. |
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12 | | The species concept includes all of these ideas, with the exception of |
| | A) | reproductive community. |
| | B) | smallest distinct groupings. |
| | C) | common descent. |
| | D) | sister groups. |
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13 | | 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. |
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14 | | The science of cladistics produces a system for naming and classifying organisms. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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15 | | Linnaeus was the first biologist to classify organisms. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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16 | | The broadest categories in the system of classification, below kingdoms, are called phyla. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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17 | | The only taxonomic unit that is written entirely in lower case letters is the genus. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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18 | | When all the organisms in one taxon come from a single common ancestor, the taxon is considered to be monophyletic. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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19 | | Phyla, classes, and families are known as taxa. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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20 | | The hierarchical rankings within the animal kingdom are: phylum, order, class, family, genus, and species. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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21 | | A genus name of an animal cannot be used for more than one group of organisms, but the species epithet may be used for unrelated organisms. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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22 | | Humans, as well as other apes have opposable thumbs. Because we share a common ancestor, this character shows homology. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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23 | | A derived character shared by members of a clade is called a symplesiomorphy. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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24 | | The branching diagram that shows the nested hierarchy of clades is a phylogenetic tree. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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25 | | From a cladistic perspective, the term reptile would include both lizards and birds. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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26 | | Although evolutionists do not follow the typological species concept, type specimens are still used when describing a new species. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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27 | | One of the problems with the biological species concept is that it only applies to organisms that reproduce asexually. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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28 | | Linnaeus was the first to propose the evolutionary species concept. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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29 | | The phylogenetic species concept includes sexually and asexually reproducing organisms and includes polyphyletic groups. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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30 | | Whittaker proposed a five-kingdom scheme, although more recently evidence suggests that the kingdom Monera should be split into two separate kingdoms. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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