Taxonomy Practice
Taxonomy
Identify characteristics of kingdoms including monerans, protests, fungi, plants and
animals.
1. What model is sometimes used to identify a group's derived traits?
a. a taxon
b. a binomial nomenclature
c. a dichotomous key
d. a cladogram
2. A species' __________ describes it evolutionary history.
a. genus
b. kingdom
c. phylogeny
d. cells
3. The circle graph below shows the relationships between the six kingdoms and the
number of species in each kingdom. According to this data, which of these statements is
true?
a. Protists and fungi combined have a smaller number of species than plant species.
b. There are less than three times the number of animal species than all other species
combined.
c. Eubacteria have the smallest number of species of all the kingdoms.
d. The number of plant species is less than the number of protist, fungi, eubacteria, and
archaebacteria species combined.
4. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
a. Using the fan model of the six kingdoms, organisms that are closer in the same colored
ray share more inherited characteristics.
b. Biologists researching the cladistics of birds have determined that they are not related
to any group of dinosaurs.
c. Branches that appear on pedigrees and cladograms show proposed ancestry of an
organism.
d. Cladograms show the probable evolution of a group of organisms rather than the direct
ancestry from two parents.
5. Which of these kingdoms consists of prokaryotic organisms?
a. plants
b. protists
c. eubacteria
d. fungi
Answer
1. D
2. C
3. D
4. B
5. C