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18-2 Modern Evolutionary Classification
Name_____________________________________
1. See Fig 18-6--- Based on appearance alone, which is more similar: [ barnacles and limpets] or [ barnacles and crabs]
2. What is phylogeny? _____________________________________________________________________
3. The strategy of grouping organisms based on their evolutionary history is called ______________________ classification.
4. Based on evolutionary classification, which pair is more similar: [ barnacles and limpets] or [ barnacles and crabs] (underline pair)
5. Name two characteristics that barnacles share with crabs: _________________________________________________________
6. Characteristics that appear in recent parts of a lineage but not in its older members are called ____________________________
characters.
7. What is a cladogram? __________________________________________________________________
8. Name a gene that both humans and yeast both have: ___________________________________________
9. This gene is evidence that humans and yeast share a common ______________________________________
10. What peculiar behavior is found only in storks and american vultures? _______________________________
11. DNA evidence indicates that the american vulture is more closely related to a stork than to an
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12. A ______________________ clock is used to estimate the length of time that two organisms have been evolving independently.
13. This model relies on measuring the number of _____________________________________ that have occurred in DNA.
18-3 Kingdoms and Domains
14. What were the two kingdoms that were proposed by Linnaeus? __________________________________________________
15. List the six kingdoms used in modern classification: ____________________________________________________________
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16. A domain is [ larger / smaller ] than a kingdom.
17. What domain includes plants, animals, protists and fungi? ____________________________________________________
18. Members of the Domain _______________________________________________ live in extreme environments.
19. The domain Eukarya constists of all the organisms that have a ______________________________________________.
20. What do members of the Kingdom Fungi eat? _______________________________________________
21. Name a unicellular fungi: ____________________________________
22. What kingdom contains multicellular autotrophic organisms? __________________________________
23. What does the term "nonmotile" mean? _________________________________________________
24. What kingdom contains multicellular heterotrophic organisms? _________________________________
25. See Fig 18-13 - Which domain includes organisms from more than one kingdom? ____________________