BIOL 2030 Midterm One Practice Question Bank with Verified Answers 2026.doc

BIOL 2030 Midterm
One Practice Question
Bank with Verified
Answers 2026

, Who was Carolus Linnaeus? - correct answerDeveloped taxonomic system for naming plants and animals and
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grouping similar organisms together
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Morphology - correct answerComparison of characteristics and features (physical characteristics)
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Taxon - correct answerGroup of organisms
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Phylogeny - correct answerHistory of development of species or other group
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Characters - correct answerOrganismal features used to construct a phylogeny [or evolutionary tree]
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Homology - correct answerCharacter similarity resulting from common ancestry
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Homoplasy - correct answerNon-homologous character similarity, misrepresent common ancestry
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Evolutionary convergence - correct answerIndependent evolution of features that are similar in species
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Cladistics - correct answerEvaluation of information for tree building and classification
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Cladogram - correct answerPhylogenetic diagram based on cladistic analysis
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Clade - correct answerA group of organisms that includes most recent common ancestors and all
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Polarity - correct answerAncestral/descendent relationships among different states of a character (presence
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or absence or vertebral column
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Outgroup comparison - correct answerExamine polarity of a character state
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Synapomorphy - correct answerDerived character that is shared by all members of the clade k k k k k k k k k k k k k