Biology Diversity and Classification of Life
16.1 -Read pg 450-451 Darwin’s Voyage
16.3 -What is natural Selection?
-What is an adaptation?
16.4 -What do homologous structures and similarities in
embryonic development suggest about the process of
evolutionary change?
Ch 18
-Look at pg 508
-Read pg 511
-Look at pg 514 (study it closely)
18.2 -Read pg 516-518
-What is the goal of evolutionary classification?
18.3 -Read section 18.3
-What are the 6 kingdoms of life as they are now identified?
-What were the monerans? Why did systamatists split them
into 2 kingdoms?
-Why are “quotes” used when talking about Kingdom
“Protista?”
-Do you think the tree of life cladogram in figure 18-18 will
always stay the same as it is now? Explain your answer.
Ch 20
-Read 20.2
-How are prokaryotes classified?
-What role do they play in the living world?
20.3 -How do bacteria cause disease?
Ch 21
-Read 602-604
-Why were “Protists” originally put into one Kingdom?
-Look at pg 608-609 diagrams closely.
-List the most general characteristics which “Protists” share.
-What are some common names of different protist groups?
21.3 -Give 2 examples of photosynthetic protists.
-How do photosynthetic protists effect aquatic ecosystems?
-Give 2 examples of disease causing protists.
21.4 -List the general characteristics of Fungi.
-Describe the structure of a common mushroom.
-Look at pg 620 to see the Life Cycle of Bread mold.
-Do fungi play a positive role in our environment? (We all
know they can be negative)
Ch 22
22.1 -List the basic needs of plants.
-List then general characteristics of plants.
-Read pg 634-638
-What function does vascular tissue play in plants?