STUDY GUIDE: QUIZ 8
Quiz Preparation Tasks: Your Answers and Notes
14 An Infinity of Diversity
14. The Challenge of Classifying Life’s Diversity
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A problem that confounds attempts to organize the entire living world for study is that kinds
it is unknown how many separate ____________ of life forms exist on this planet.
A problem that confounds attempts to organize the entire living world for study is that complexity
there are too many organisms with too much overlapping ____________ to support a
simple means of classification.
A problem that confounds attempts to organize the entire living world for study is the one group
need of evolutionists to bring the entire diversity of living things ultimately into
____________ ____________.
14. Classification: Engaging the Challenge
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Seeking to scientifically name each variety of life form found and relate it to other Taxonomy
similar species is a discipline known as ____________.
The term ____________ refers to attempts to derive a biologically meaningful filing Systematics
system for organizing genera and species.
What criteria are used for collecting species of organisms into a genus? Using latin Roots
Compared to a species, a ____________ is more inclusive, with broader structural and Genus
functional variations.
Be able to properly write the scientific name for human beings according to the rules Homo sapiens
for naming species.
The convention used for representing scientific names for newly discovered species is Latin, distinguishing features
that ____________ root words are used in order to name the organism’s primary
____________ ____________.
List these 4 taxonomic levels in their correct order, from least inclusive to most Species, Genus, Family, Order
inclusive: species, genus, family, order
List these 5 taxonomic levels in their correct order, from least inclusive to most Family, Order, Class, phylum, kingdom,
inclusive: family, order, class, phylum, kingdom
14. Characteristics Used in Classification
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List and describe 7 basic characteristics used to classify living things. 1.PHOTOSYNTHESIS-AUTOTROPH
THE ABILITYTO MAKE ITS OWN
FOOD-EUGLENA GRACILIS.
(HETEROTROPHY DOESN’T MAKE
, BIOL 101
PARAMECIUMAURELIUM-ONLY
ONE CELL
3.NUCLEUS-EUKARYOTIC-DESERT
RAT CELLS(NO PROKARYOTIC)-
BATERIUM IN YOGURT
4.FLAGELLAE-ONE ANTERIOR-
EUGLENAGRACILIS(NONE-
DIPODOMYS DESERTI, DESERT
RAT CELL)YES-ONE POSTERIOR-
CYCLOMMATUSPULCHELLUS
STAGHORN BEETLE, YES-
TWOANTERIOR-BROWN ALGAL
SPORE LAMINARIAEPHEMERA
5.MITOCHONDRIA-CRISTAE DISC-
LIKE TUBE-LIKE IN SOME FORMS-
RATTUS NORVEGICUS BROWN
RAT CELL VCYTOPLKASM(NONE-
AMITOCHONDRIAL-GIARDIA
LAMBLIA)
6.AMOEBOIDMOVEMENT-CAN IT
GO? CHAOS CAROLINENSIS-
ANAMOEBA(NO- PYRUS
COMMUNIS, EUROPEAN PEAR,
STONE CELLS FROM FRUIT
7.GENE SEQUENCES-RIBOSOMAL
RNA- THE 16S reran GENE
PRODUCT ISA STRUCTURAL PART
OF RIBOSOMES SMALL