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| What goes into a Species name? |
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| The science of naming organisms is called ______ |
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| Name the taxonomic levels (in order) |
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Domain; Kingdom; Phylum;
Class; Order; Family;
Genus; Species |
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| The wing of a bald eagle is ______ the wing of a penguin |
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| The wing of a penguin is _____ the flipper of a dolphin. |
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| Homology is evidence of ______ |
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| Analogous structures are evidence of ____ |
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| Cladistic analysis identifies clades on the basis of _____ |
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| the first appearance in fossil record |
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| In the 5 Kingdom-System, where do the Archaea and Bacteria Domains belong? |
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| Large amounts of oxygen gas appeared in Earth's atomosphere about _____ years ago. |
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| Land was first colonized about _____ years ago. |
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| The absence of ____ in the primitive atmosphere was essential to the origin of life on Earth. |
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| What was the 1st stage of the process that led to the abiotic origin of life? |
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| abiotic synthesis of monomers |
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| Under what abiotic conditions can monomers spontaneously form polymers? |
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| When water evaporates from a hot surface |
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| What prokaryotic group is most closely related to eukaryotes? |
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| The prokaryotic group that tends to inhabit extreme environments is the ____. |
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| What of the following are primarily responsible for the side effect of eating beans? |
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| Bacilli are _____ prokaryotes |
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| What is very difficult to kill in the food canning process? |
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| Prokaryotes reproduce by means of _____ |
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| Under ideal conditions, prokaryotes are capable of reproducing at an _____ rate |
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| A prokaryote that can make its own food in the absence of light, this is classified as _____ |
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| The Ebol virus is an example of a ____ |
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| Some _____ convert atmospheric nitrogen into a form that can be used by plants. |
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| The simplest eukaryotes are classified as _____ |
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| A photoautotrophic unicellular organism with a shell made of silica is most likely a ____. |
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| Multicellular organisms first moved onto land about _____ years ago. |
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| Mutualistic associations of plant roots and fungi are called ____. |
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| The _____ helps plants retain water |
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| ____ is a chemical that supports the pysical structure of terrestrial plants |
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| _____ are considered the green algae ancestor of landplants |
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| What is the sequence of origin of modern groups of plants? |
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| bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms |
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| In ____ the gametophyte is mor obvious than the sporophyte. |
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| Gametophyes are ____; sporophytes are ____. |
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| Gametophytes reproduce ____ |
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| Why are ferns considered to be incompletely adapted to the terrestiral environment? |
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| the sperm are flagellated |
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| What global climatic change gave gymnosperms an advantae over ferns? |
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| the climate becoming cooler and drier |
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| Your friend with plant allergies sneezes and then says: "I sneezed because ____ went up my nose." |
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| Not all animals have _____ |
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| The common ancestor of all animals is likely to have been a ____ |
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| clolonial, flagellated protist |
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| How do sponges differ from all other animals? |
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| Having a true coelom distinguishes ___ from ___ |
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| completely lined with tissue derived from mesoderm |
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| What group is most closely related to chordates? |
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| Flatworms are similar to cnidarians in that both ____ |
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| The simplest animals to have complete digestive tracts are ___ |
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| there are more species of ___ than any other type of animal |
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| The arthropod skeleton is composed of ? |
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| What is a characteristic unique to echinoderms? |
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| Unique features of vertebrates in clude the presence of a _____ |
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| The feature present in reptiles and absent in amphibians that freed reptiles from dependence on water for reproduction is ?? |
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| Features unique to mammals include ____ |
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| _____ are the mammalian group members that lack placentas |
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| What is one characteristic that separates chordates from all other animals? |
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| hollow dorsal nerve chord |
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| The amniote egg first evolved in which of the following groups? |
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| What distinguishes animal heterotrophy from fungal heterotrophy? |
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| Animals derive nutrition by ingesting food |
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| Cephalization is primarily __ |
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| an adaptation to movement |
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