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genus Musca
class Hexapoda
order Diptera
family Muscidae
phylum Arthropoda
owl wing and hornet wing
bat forelimb and bird wing
porcupine quill and cactus spine
bat wing and human hand
Australian mole and North American mole
monophyletic.
polyphyletic.
paraphyletic.
Bio 1202 test 2 Chapter 26
Prokaryotic cells are found in the domain(s) _____.
-Bacteria and Archaea
-Bacteria and Eukarya
-Bacteria and Protista
-Bacteria
-Protista and Archaea
In the five-kingdom system, prokaryotes are placed in the kingdom _____.
-Protista
-Animalia
-Fungi
-Plantae
-Monera
A human is classified in domain _____ and kingdom _____.
-Eukarya … Fungi
-Eukarya … Protista
-Eukarya … Plantae
-Eukarya … Animalia
-Bacteria … Archaea
A rose bush is classified in domain _____ and kingdom _____.
-Eukarya … Fungi
-Eukarya … Protista
-Eukarya … Plantae
-Eukarya … Animalia
-Bacteria … Archaea
In the five-kingdom system, which kingdom consists primarily of unicellular eukaryotes?
-Fungi
-Protista
-Plantae
-Animalia
-Monera
In the two-kingdom system, why were fungi classified in the kingdom Plantae?
-They are sedentary.
-They are heterotrophs.
-They lack cell walls.
-They are unicellular.
-They are autotrophs.
There is(are) _____ eukaryotic domain(s).
-one
-two
-three
-four
-five
If organisms A, B, and C belong to the same class but to different orders and if organisms D, E, and F belong to the same order but to different families, which of the following pairs of organisms would be expected to show the greatest degree of structural homology?
-A and B
-A and C
-B and D
-C and F
-D and F
Which of the following is (are) problematic when the goal is to construct phylogenies that accurately reflect evolutionary history?
-polyphyletic taxa
-monophyletic taxa
-polyphyletic taxa and monophyletic taxa
-paraphyletic taxa
-polyphyletic taxa and paraphyletic taxa
-All of the choices are correct.
Animals that possess homologous structures probably _____.
-evolved from the same ancestor
-have increased genetic diversity
-are not related
-are the result of convergent evolution
-are the result of similar environmental pressures in different evolutionary lineages
Systematists have used a wide variety of traits to reconstruct the phylogenies of particular groups of organisms. Which one of the following traits produces a good estimate of phylogeny?
-molecular traits
-behavioral traits
-biochemical traits
-gross morphological traits
-all of the above traits combined
The best classification system is that which most closely
-conforms to traditional, Linnaean taxonomic practices.
-unites organisms that possess similar morphologies.
-reflects the basic separation of prokaryotes from eukaryotes.
-reflects evolutionary history.
Some molecular data place the giant panda in the bear family (Ursidae) but place the lesser panda in the raccoon family (Procyonidae). Consequently, the morphological similarities of these two species are probably due to
-possession of analogous structures.
-sexual selection.
-possession of shared primitive characters.
-inheritance of shared derived characters.
-inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Which mutation should least require realignment of homologous regions of a gene that is common to several related species?
-one-base substitution
-one-base deletion
-four-base insertion
-three-base insertion
-three-base deletion
What process actually increases the number of genes in an organism’s genome?
-gene duplication
-cladistics
-mutation
-parsimony
-independent assortment
Which statement represents the best explanation for the observation that the nuclear DNA of wolves and domestic dogs has a very high degree of sequence homology?
-Dogs and wolves belong to the same order.
-Dogs and wolves are both members of the order Carnivora.
-Dogs and wolves shared a common ancestor very recently.
-Dogs and wolves have very similar morphologies.
The reason that paralogous genes can diverge from each other within the same gene pool, whereas orthologous genes diverge only after gene pools are isolated from each other, is that
-having an extra copy of a gene permits modifications to the copy without loss of the original gene product.
-having multiple copies of genes is essential for the occurrence of sympatric speciation in the wild.
-polyploidy is a necessary precondition for the occurrence of sympatric speciation in the wild.
-paralogous genes can occur only in diploid species; thus, they are absent from most prokaryotes.
What kind of evidence has recently made it necessary to assign the prokaryotes to either of two different domains, rather than assigning all prokaryotes to the same kingdom?
-anatomical
-ecological
-molecular
-nutritional
-behavioral
What important criterion was used in the late 1960s to distinguish between the three multicellular eukaryotic kingdoms of the five-kingdom classification system?
-the features of their embryos
-the nutritional modes they employ
-the geological stratum in which fossils first appear
-the biogeographic province where each first appears
-the number of cells present in individual organisms
To apply parsimony to constructing a phylogenetic tree,
-choose the tree that assumes all evolutionary changes are equally probable.
-choose the tree in which the branch points are based on as many shared derived characters as possible.
-choose the tree with the fewest branch points.
-choose the tree that represents the fewest evolutionary changes, in either DNA sequences or morphology.
-base phylogenetic trees only on the fossil record, as this provides the simplest explanation for evolution.
Phylogeny is the evolutionary history of related groups of organisms. Organisms are grouped into taxa based on homologous characteristics, shared traits that result from common ancestry. Which statement is true?
-Ancestral traits are always simpler than derived traits.
-The term “monophyletic” refers to a taxon that includes an ancestral species and all of its descendants.
-Homologous structures look the same and serve the same function, but they differ in evolutionary origin and structure.
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