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Unit 9 Test Review
Classification
Please answer these questions in your notebook during class and bring Tuesday, March 1st for the test.
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What is taxonomic classification?
What are the levels of classification?
What is the least specific level of classification?
What is the most specific level of classification?
How do similarities in DNA change as we move from organisms in the same species to organisms in the
same Kingdom?
6. What are the four types of kingdoms we learned about?
7. What are the three domains?
8. Who is Carl Linnaeus?
9. What are some traits that scientists look at when deciding what classify organisms? (think of the video
from class).
10. What is binomial nomenclature?
11. What are the rules all scientists follow when writing the scientific name of organisms?
12. What are the two ways to write the scientific name of
organisms?
13. What is the purpose of a dichotomous key?
14. Understand how to use a dichotomous key to correctly
identify an organism.
15. What is a cladogram?
16. What does a cladogram show?
17. Answer the following cladogram questions:
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What characteristics do the amphibians have the birds do
not have?
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Which organism in the oldest in evolutionary time?
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Circle the most recent common ancestor of birds and humans.
Identify:
Bird W __________________
Bird X _________________
Bird Y__________________
Bird Z___________________
Who is more closely related: A beaver and New World Monkeys or Rabbit and New World Monkeys?
Whose DNA is most closely related to an Elephant shrew? There can be more than one possible answer.
Which organism is the oldest in evolutionary time?
Which organism is the youngest in evolutionary time?
Circle the most recent common ancestor of a
1) beaver and guinea pig
2) Rabbit and bat and
3) Gorilla and Armadillo
4) Human and Bonobo
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Notebook:
Unit 8
-Foldable
-Techbook questions
-mutation notes
-Hardy Weinberg notes
-Neanderthal article notes
-Review questions
-Video guided questions (genetic drift)
Unit 9
-Classification notes (taxonomic classification, dichotomous key, cladogram, binomial nomenclature)
-Foldable with notes and examples
-Cladogram types/questions