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1 Name: Period: Date: 1. Which kingdom is NOT prokaryotic? A. Eubacteria B. Archaeabacteria C. Protists 2. Which kingdom contains "extremophiles"? A. eubacteria B. archaebacteria C. fungi 3. Which example below is the correct way to type a scientific name? A. Genus species B. genus species C. Genus species D. Genus Species Classification Highlight Packet C. Archaebacteria D. Plantae 7. Classification is a systematic approach which involves? A. Looking at extinct species B. Nucleotide similarities C. Protein similarities D. Morphological similarities 8. What factors do the Kingdoms Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia have in common? A. They are all eukaryotes. B. They are all photosynthetic organisms. C. They are all multicellular organisms. D. They are all prokaryotes. 4. The organisms Felis catus and Felis silvestris do not belong to the same? A. Class B. Family C. Genus D. species 5. Who initiated the use of binomial nomenclature in classifying organisms? A. Carolus Linnaeus B. Louis Pasteur C. Joseph Lister D. John Snow E. Gerhard Domagk 6. The Kingdom Monera once included which of the following kingdoms known today? A. Protista B. Animalia 9. What do plants and animals have in common? A. both are heterotrophic B. both are autotrophic C. both are prokaryotic D. both are eukaryotic 10. Which Kingdoms have heterotrophs and autotrophs in them? A. Fungi B. Protists C. Plantae D. Animals 11. What is binomial nomenclature? A. Classifying organisms into seven levels. B. A naming system in which each organism is given a two-part name.

2 C. The naming system developed by Aristotle. D. Grouping animals based on how they move. 12. What is the only kingdom to contain only autotrophs? A. Plants B. Protists C. Fungi D. Eubacteria 13. Organisms that have cell walls of chitin and do not photosynthesize are from which Kingdom? A. Protista B. Animalia C. Fungi D. Plantae 14. What is taxonomy? A. The name of Aristotle s classification system. B. The process used by geologists to classify rocks C. The process of observing an organism s behavior D. The scientific study of how living things are classified 15. A dichotomous key is used to: A. locate an organism B. identify an organism C. divide a kingdom D. interbreed species 16. Sometimes, scientific names may be instead of Latin. 17. How do scientific names appear in print? 18. Using the following cladogram, name the organisms that share jaw bones. a. c. b. d. 2

3 19. Fill in the blanks. Number of Cells Energy (Types of Nutrition) Cell Type Cell Wall Archaebacteria Eubacteria Protista Fungae Plantae Animalia 20. Use the following dichotomous key to answer the question below. 1. Compound or simple leaf: 1a. Compound leaf (leaf does not have stem) Go to 2 1b. Simple leaf (leaf connected to branch by stem) Go to 3 2. Leaflet arrangement: 2a. Leaflets palmate (all attached at one point)...aesculus (buckeye) 2b. Leaflets pinnate (attached at several points)...carya (pecan) 3

4 3. Arrangement of veins in leaves: 3a. Veins branch out from one central point...cercis (redbud) 3b. Veins branch off main vein in middle of leaf...betula (birch) Which of the leaves shown above is from a pecan tree? A. I D. IV B. II C. III 21. Using the phylogenetic tree below, which of the following has the greatest genetic difference from Macaca fuscata? A. M. mulatta B. M. sylvanus C. Hylobates D. Pan 22. Marci needs to identify this specimen for her biology collection. Which questions are MOST useful in the identification process? 4

5 A. I, III, IV, V B. II, VI, VIII, X C. II, VIII, IX, X D. III, VI, IX, X 23. 5

6 24. 6

7 Question Number Answer Key 1 C 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 A D 8 A 9 D 10 B 11 B 12 A 13 C 14 D 15 B 16 Greek 17 Italics/Underlined 18 Wolf, Turtle, salamander, and grouper 20 B 21 D 22 C 23 B 24 D 19. Number Energy (Types of Cell Cell Wall of Cells Nutrition) Type Archaebacteria unicellular some autotrophic, most prokaryote Cell wall, no peptidoglycan chemotrophic Eubacteria unicellular autotrophic and heterotrophic prokaryote Cell wall peptidoglycan Protista most heterotrophic or eukaryote Mixed unicellular autotrophic Fungae most heterotrophic eukaryote Cell wall, chitin multicellular Plantae multicellular autotrophic eukaryote Cell wall, cellulose 7

8 Animalia multicellular heterotrophic eukaryote No cell wall 8

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