Biology: The Dynamics of Life, California Edition

Section 2: The Six Kingdoms

The Six Kingdoms

1.
What model is sometimes used to identify a group's derived traits?
A)a binomial nomenclature
B)a dichotomous key
C)a cladogram
D)a taxon
2.
A species' __________ describes it evolutionary history.
A)cells
B)phylogeny
C)genus
D)kingdom
3.
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A)Using the fan model of the six kingdoms, organisms that are closer in the same colored ray share more inherited characteristics.
B)Cladograms show the probable evolution of a group of organisms rather than the direct ancestry from two parents.
C)Biologists researching the cladistics of birds have determined that they are not related to any group of dinosaurs.
D)Branches that appear on pedigrees and cladograms show proposed ancestry of an organism.
4.
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The circle graph below shows the relationships between the six kingdoms and the number of species in each kingdom. According to this data, which of these statements is true?
A)There are less than three times the number of animal species than all other species combined.
B)The number of plant species is less than the number of protist, fungi, eubacteria, and archaebacteria species combined.
C)Eubacteria have the smallest number of species of all the kingdoms.
D)Protists and fungi combined have a smaller number of species than plant species.
5.
Which of these kingdoms consists of prokaryotic organisms?
A)fungi
B)plants
C)eubacteria
D)protists
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