Name____________________________________
Reading classification charts:
1. Which classification level has a wider diversity of organisms?
A. Order
B. Genus
C. Family
D Species
2. Which 2 of these 3 animals in the tables below are most closely related? )Use the genus and
species names of the two animals for your answer):
3. Explain your reasoning for answer 2:
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Animalia
Chordata
Animalia
Animalia
Chordata
Chordata
Class:
Order:
Mammalia
Primates
Mammalia
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Primates
Family:
Genus:
Hominidae
Pan
Pteropodidae
Hylobatidae
Mirimiri
Hylobates
Species:
Troglodytes
acrodonta
Lar
4. At what level of classification does this animal separate from the ones above?
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Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Passeriformes
Family:
Troglodytes
Genus:
Salpinctes
Species
Obsoletus
5. The three animals classified here are: Chimpanzee, Rock Wren (bird), bat, Gibbon (monkey)
Which is the Rock Wren? ___________________ ___________________
Genus
species