Chapter 26 Review: 19632/5025857

  1. The scientific name for leopard is Panthera pardus. Panthera designates which taxon?
    1. species (wrong)
    2. order (wrong)
    3. family (wrong)
    4. genus <==== correct
    5. class (wrong)
      Hint
  2. A(n) ________ is used to track relationships by shared derived characters inherited from a common ancestor.
    1. anagram (wrong)
    2. homogram (wrong)
    3. hologram (wrong)
    4. mammogram (wrong)
    5. cladogram <==== correct
      Hint
  3. A clade that consists of the ancestral species and all its descendants is
    1. monophyletic. <==== correct
    2. polyphyletic. (wrong)
    3. homohyletic. (wrong)
    4. paraphyletic. (wrong)
    5. uniphyletic. (wrong)
      Hint
  4. The order of taxa in traditional taxonomy is
    1. kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. <==== correct
    2. kingdom, phylum, order, family, class, genus, species. (wrong)
    3. class, order, kingdom, phylum, family, genus, species. (wrong)
    4. family, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, species. (wrong)
    5. kingdom, phylum, family, genus, species, class, order. (wrong)
      Hint
  5. Kingdom Fungi is most closely related to
    1. Protista. (wrong)
    2. Plantae. (wrong)
    3. Animalia. <==== correct
    4. Bacteria. (wrong)
    5. Archaea. (wrong)
      Hint
  6. Which of these 2 domains are more closely related to each other than to the third?
    1. Eukarya and Prokarya (wrong)
    2. Eukarya and Archaea <==== correct
    3. Eukarya and Bacteria (wrong)
    4. Bacteria and Archaea (wrong)
      Hint