BSCS Biology: A Molecular Approach

Chapter 18: Diversity and Variation

Bringing Order to Diversity

1.
The science of classifying organisms is ____.
A)homology
B)taxonomy
C)analogy
D)polymorphism
2.
Differences among members of a species are called ____.
A)homologies
B)analogies
C)taxonomies
D)variations
3.
The animals shown here are all flesh eaters, and as such are grouped in the order ____.
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A)Mammalia
B)Chordata
C)Genera
D)Carnivora
4.
In binomial nomenclature, the first word is the ___ name, and the second is the ___.
A)genus, species
B)kingdom, order
C)class, phylum
D)scientific, nonscientific
5.
Cladistics and phenetics are alternatives to the orthodox, or traditional method of ____.
A)classifying organisms
B)naming organism families
C)breeding new species
D)dissecting samples
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