Chapter 26: Phylogeny and The Tree of Life

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