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104 questions
Q.Who was the first person to classify organisms?
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Q.Which of the following was not a way Linnaeus classified organisms?
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Q.What classification did Linnaeus find?
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Q.Scientists switch to using the binomial nomenclature to help cause less confusion.
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Q.What language is the binomial nomenclature written in?
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Q.Which of the following is not a way names are chosen for binomial nomenclature?
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Q.Which of the following is not a domain used to classify?
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Q.What kingdom includes the most abundant organisms on Earth, unicellular and prokaryotic, often causes disease, and are decomposers?
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Q.What kingdom can be unicellular and prokaryotic and lives in extreme environments where other organisms cannot survive?
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Q.What kingdom has autrophic and heterotrophic organisms that are mobile or stationary, either unicellular or colonial, and considered the "junk" kingdom?
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Q.What kingdom contains heterotrophic decomposers that are either unicellular or multicellular and used to be considered the plant kingdom because they appear to have similarities with plants, but they are very different?
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Q.What kingdom contains autotrophic organisms, are stationary, and range in size from tiny mosses to giant sequoias?
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Q.What kingdom contains heterotrophic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms that are able to move with some form of locomotion and have definitive tissues and organs?
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Q.The study of classifying or organizing living things into categories based on common characteristics is called
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Q.A branching diagram that shows evolutionary relationships is called a
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Q.A branch on the cladogram is called a
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Q.The place where each branch intersects the diagram and shows where a new trait has evolved is called a
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Q.What are tiny non-living particles that invade and then replicate inside a host cell?
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Q.What type of virus is spherical and surrounded by a membrane envelope?
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Q.What type of virus is a hollow tube filled with amino acids?
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Q.What type of virus is made of triangles fused together in shape?
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Q.What type of virus is an icosahedral with a tail and infects bacteria?
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Q.How do viruses obtain energy?
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Q.Which of the following is not a main structure of a virus?
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Q.Viruses with hidden reproduction attach to the cell and the viral genetic material takes over and begins to replicate immediately.
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Q.What type of reproduction is when genetic material is combined with the cell's and lies dormant until it is ready to become active?
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Q.What organisms are prokaryotic; unicellular organisms with no nucleus and no membrane-bound organelles?
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Q.What type of bacteria is not in a chain?
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Q.What type of bacteria formed in a chain?
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Q.What type of bacteria is rod-shaped?
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Q.What type of bacteria is spiral-shaped?
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Q.When bacteria use energy from the sun to make food this is which way to obtain energy?
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Q.When bacteria use energy from chemicals to make food this is which way to obtain energy?
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Q.When bacteria consume food and use oxygen to make energy this is which way to obtain energy?
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Q.What way do bacteria reproduce asexually?
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Q.What type of asexual reproduction occurs when one parent divides to form two identical offspring?
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Q.What way do bacteria reproduce sexually?
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Q.What type of sexual reproduction occurs when there is an exchange of genetic material through a tube that connects them?
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Q.Flagella is a long, whip-like tail.
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Q.Which of the following is not a way bacteria moves?
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Q.Cilia is hair-like projections on organisms.
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Q.What organisms are comprised of unicellular, eukaryotes that can be animal-like, plant-like, or fungus-like and live in moist surroundings?
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Q.How do plant-like protists obtain energy?
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Q.How do animal-like protists obtain energy?
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Q.How do fungus-like protists obtain energy?
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Q.Plant-like protista reproduce asexually using
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Q.Animal-like protista reproduce sexually using
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Q.Fungus-like protista reproduce asexually using
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Q.Fungus-like protista reproduce sexually using
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Q.Plant-like protista move using flagella and floating.
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Q.Animal-like protista move using pseudopodia, cilia, flagella, or by using a host.
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Q.Fungus-like protista move by ooze using pseudopodia and flagella.
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Q.What organism is multicellular or unicellular (yeast), are eukaryotic, heterotrophs that absorb decaying material and live in warm moist places?
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Q.What is the thread-like structures that make up multicellular fungi?
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Q.What are the underground root-like system made up of many hyphae in fungi called?
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Q.How do parasitic fungi obtain energy?
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Q.How do mutualistic fungi obtain energy?
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Q.How do decomposer fungi obtain energy?
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Q.Which of the following is not a way fungi reproduce?
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Q.What organisms are multicellular, eukaryotic, autotrophs that do not have tubes?
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Q.Plantae non-vascular has no tubes which means that do not have
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Q.Which of the following is a non-vascular plant?
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Q.Non-vascular plants have cell walls that are made of
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Q.How do non-vascular plants asexually reproduce?
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Q.Non-vascular plants reproduce through spore formation.
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Q.What three organelles does a plant cell have that an animal cell does not have?
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Q.What organisms are multicellular, eukaryotic, autotrophs that have a system of tubes?
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Q.Which vascular plant has a seed enclosed in a fruit?
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Q.When plants grows toward the light this is called
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Q.When plants grow away from gravity this is called
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Q.When plants wrap around object when near is called
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Q.What is the male part of a flower called?
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Q.What is the female part of a flower called?
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Q.Which of the following is not one of the ways they classify animals?
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Q.Vertebrate: animals without a backbone.
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Q.Which type of symmetry has one line of symmetry that divides the animal in half to create a mirror image and only found in complex organisms?
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Q.What type of symmetry has many lines of symmetry around a central point and involves simple organisms that all live in water?
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Q.What type of symmetry has no line of symmetry?
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Q.What type of organisms are multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotrophs that do not have a backbone?
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Q.What type of symmetry does porifera have?
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Q.What type of invertebrate resembles a hollow bag of pores, filter feeds using collar cells, and is sessile?
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Q.What type of symmetry does cnidaria have?
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Q.What type of vertebrate has stinging cells used for defense and to capture prey and often lives in colonies?
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Q.What type of symmetry does echinodermata have?
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Q.What type of invertebrate has an internal skeleton, a water vascular system, sticky tube feet, and they all live in water?
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Q.What type of symmetry does arthropods have?
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Q.What type of invertebrate has an outer skeleton, grows by shedding or molting, has jointed legs, and is the largest group of animals?
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Q.What type of symmetry do worms have?
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Q.What type of invertebrate have long, narrow bodies with tissues, organs, and organsystems, are the simplest organisms with a brain, do not have legs, and many are parasitic?
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Q.What type of symmetry do mollusca have?
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Q.What type of invertebrate has a soft body sometimes covered by a shell, a mantle, a specialized foot for moving and/or eating, and some of them have gills?
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Q.What class of vertebrate has smooth moist skin, lays jelly-like eggs in water, undergoes metamorphosis, and spends its adult life on land?
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Q.What class of vertebrate have fur, 4 legs, gives birth to live young, makes milk for its young, and has a 4 chambered heart?
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Q.What class of vertebrates has feathers, 2 legs, lays hard-shelled eggs, and has a 4 chambered heart?
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Q.What type of vertebrate has fins and scales for swimming, obtains oxygen through gills, and lives in water?
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Q.What class of vertebrate has 4 legs or no legs, lays leathery eggs, and breathes using lungs?
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Q.What type of mollusca has a single shell or no shell and eats with radula?
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Q.What type of mollusca has two shells, filter feeds using gills, and are omnivores?
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Q.What type of mollusca has a food that is adapted to form tentacles around its mouth and are all found in the water?
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Q.What type of worm has a long, cylindrical body with a tube-like digestive system with two openings?
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Q.What type of worm has a flat, jelly-like body and are all parasitic?
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Q.What type of worm has a body made of many linked segments and has a closed circulatory system?
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Q.What type of cnidaria is vase-shaped, sessile, has tentacles that are formed around and upward facing mouth?
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Q.What type of cnidaria is bowl-shaped, swims, and has tentacles that are formed around a downward facing mouth?
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