A) Carl Linnaeus B) Alfred Wallace C) Charles Darwin D) Gregor Mendel
A) Order B) Species C) Genus D) Phylum
A) Habitats B) Relationships C) Diet D) Age
A) Kingdom, Family, Order, Genus, Species B) Kingdom, Family, Order, Species, Genus C) Family, Kingdom, Order, Genus, Species D) Kingdom, Order, Family, Genus, Species
A) Class B) Species C) Phylum D) Family
A) Ecology B) Taxonomy C) Genetics D) Botany
A) World Health Organization B) International Code of Nomenclature C) Environmental Protection Agency D) United Nations
A) Binomial B) Monomial C) Trinomial D) Uninomial
A) Ten B) Five C) Seven D) Three
A) It originates from Latin words for 'study' and 'life'. B) It has roots in Germanic languages referring to science. C) It is derived from French terms related to classification. D) It comes from Ancient Greek words meaning 'arrangement' and 'method'.
A) 'Division'. B) 'Class'. C) 'Family'. D) 'Order'.
A) The field that provides scientific names, describes organisms, preserves collections, provides classifications and keys for identification, investigates evolutionary histories, and considers environmental adaptations. B) The examination of cellular structures in living organisms. C) The analysis of ecological interactions among species. D) The study of genetic inheritance patterns.
A) 'Ecology'. B) 'Genetics'. C) 'Taxonomy' exclusively. D) 'Systematics' and 'biosystematics'.
A) John Lindley. B) Charles Darwin. C) De Candolle, in his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique. D) Carl Linnaeus.
A) William Bertram Turrill. B) Carl Linnaeus. C) Ernst Mayr. D) Charles Darwin.
A) Molecular genetics data. B) Monophyly and synapomorphies. C) Evolutionary relationships. D) Arbitrary criteria, known as artificial systems.
A) 2002 B) 1977 C) 1999 D) 2012
A) A shared derived character state used to diagnose monophyletic groups B) An ancestral trait not present in descendants C) A characteristic unique to paraphyletic groups D) A trait found in polyphyletic groups
A) 2012 B) 2002 C) 2004 D) 1977
A) Fossil representatives B) Extant taxa to the rank of Family C) Eukaryotes with an emphasis on protists D) Prokaryotes
A) Scala naturae B) Anhaima C) Enhaima D) Great chain of being
A) Theophrastus B) Procopius C) Al-Damiri D) Timotheus of Gaza
A) Kingdom B) Phylum C) Class D) Domain
A) Cells lack a nucleus B) Cells have cell walls C) Cells are prokaryotic D) Cells contain a nucleus
A) Procopius B) Thomas Aquinas C) Al-Damiri D) Theophrastus
A) Great chain of being B) Scala naturae C) Enhaima D) Anhaima
A) 1758 B) 1809 C) 1859 D) 1901
A) Paleobiology Database B) Encyclopedia of Life C) Adl et al., 2012 D) Ruggiero et al., 2015
A) Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera B) Ruggiero, 2014 C) Global Biodiversity Information Facility D) NCBI taxonomy database
A) Procopius B) Aristotle C) Al-Damiri D) Theophrastus
A) Thomas Cavalier-Smith B) Darwin C) Stefan Luketa D) Carl Woese
A) Insects, linked to arachnids B) Fish, linked to amphibians C) Mammals, linked to reptiles D) Birds, linked to dinosaurs using fossils like Archaeopteryx
A) NCBI taxonomy database B) Encyclopedia of Life C) Global Biodiversity Information Facility D) Paleobiology Database
A) Cladistic analysis B) Maximum likelihood C) Neighbor joining D) Bayesian inference
A) Carl Woese B) Thomas Cavalier-Smith C) Stefan Luketa D) Linnaeus
A) Enhaima B) Cornus C) Aristotle D) Anhaima
A) Four B) Three C) Six D) Five
A) Half B) More than three-quarters C) All known species D) One-quarter
A) Protista B) Bacteria (also called Monera) C) Eukaryota D) Fungi
A) 1.64 million B) 500,000 C) 10 million D) 3 million |