Glencoe Biology

Chapter 17: Organizing Life's Diversity

Chapter Test Practice

1
All organisms are grouped into ____ which range in specificity of criteria.
A)taxa
B)bio categories
C)twenty kingdoms
D)two main genera
2
Archaea are often called ____ because they can live in extreme environments.
A)thrives
B)flourishing bacteria
C)thermotrophic
D)extremophiles
3
The ____ assumes that species are unchanging and should be grouped by physical similarities.
A)biochemistry concept
B)phylogenetic species concept
C)biological species concept
D)typological species concept
4
The evolutionary history of a species is called its ____.
A)phylogeny
B)taxa
C)species concept
D)class
5
What did Darwin's analogy of the tree of life suggest?
A)Most species do not have ancestors.
B)All species derived from trees.
C)All species were derived from ancestral groups.
D)Most species are unrelated to each other.
6
What does this indicate regarding the classification of American and Asiatic black bears?

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A)They are different species but have no domain classification.
B)They are a different species and different class.
C)They are the same species but different phylum.
D)They are different species but the same class.
7
What is the broadest of all the taxa categories?
A)phylum
B)kingdom
C)domain
D)order
8
What is the second name in binomial nomenclature?
A)genus
B)epithet
C)phylum
D)kingdom
9
What kingdom are mushrooms in?
A)Fungi
B)Plantae
C)Animalia
D)Archaea
10
What structural similarity exists between species in Protista and Plantae kingdoms?
A)both have chloroplasts
B)chitin in cell walls
C)cellulose in cell walls
D)have no cell walls
11
Which characteristic describes these three organisms?

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A)unicellular
B)heterotrophic
C)prokaryotic
D)phototrophic
12
Which kingdom contains species believed to be more ancient than bacteria?
A)Archaea
B)Plantae
C)Animalia
D)Mammalia
13
Which of these was a feature of Aristotle's classification system?
A)emphasized evolutionary changes
B)divided organisms into plant an animal
C)borrowed from Darwin's theories
D)accounted for evolutionary relationships
14
Which statement is true regarding this cladogram?

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A)mosses and ferns share no ancestral characters
B)lilies share ancestral characters with mosses
C)flowers are an ancestral character
D)flowers evolved before vascular tissues
15
Why would have Aristotle likely classified these butterflies as separate species?

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A)They have different ancestors.
B)They have the same color pattern.
C)They display different behavior.
D)They look different physically.
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