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| * In classification, the taxonomy category above class (less specific than class) is called ______. | phylum p402 |
| * In classification, the taxonomic category above genus (less specific than genus) is called _____. | family p402 |
| * An evolutionary timing method based on the observation that at least some regions of the genome evolve at constant rates. | Molecular clock p413 |
| * In classification, the taxonomic category above family (less specific than family) is called _____. | order p402 |
| * A taxonomic category above the species level, designated by the first word of a species' binomial scientific Latin name. | genus p402 |
| * In classification, the taxonomic category above order (less specific than order) is called _____. | class p402 |
| * An evolutionary novelty unique to a particular clade is called a(n) _____. | shared derived character p409 |
| * The taxonomic category above the kingdom level (less specific than kingdom) is called _____. | domain p402 |
| * When writing a scientific name, what is capitalized and what font style is used? | Only the first letter of the genus name is capitalized. Italics are used for all letters. p402 |
| * The scientific name is composed of the organisms ______ name and _____ name. | genus and species name p402 |
| * Felis catus and Felis concolour belong to the same ____. | genus (Since they belong to the same genus, they automatically belong to the same family, order, class, phylum, kingdom and domain also.) p402 |
| * Put the following terms in order from largest group to smallest as far as the number of species that belong to each: Class, Domain, Family, Genus, Kingdom, Order, Phylum, Species, | Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species (Remember the phrase, "Did King Phillips court order fresh grilled salmon?") p402 |
| * A genus is composed of a number of related ____. | species p402 |
| * Cat is a(n) _______ name that is different from country to country or language to language but Felis catus is a _______ name that is used by all scientists throughout the world. | common, scientific p402 |
| * What genus does Ursus maritimus belong in? | Ursus (the first part of a scientific name is always the name of the genus to which the organism belongs) p402 |
| * Homo sapien belongs to which species? | sapien (the second name of the scientific name is always the species name to which the organism belongs) p402 |
| * The animals Panthera leo (lion) and _____ tigris (tiger) belong to the same genus. | Panthera p402 |
| * Similarity between two species that is due to convergent evolution rather than to descent from a common ancestor with the same trait is called _____. | analogy p406 |
| * A group of species that includes an ancestral species and all its descendants is called a(n) _____. | clade p407 |
| * Similarity in characteristics resulting from a shared ancestry is called ____. | homology (Homologies can be broken into both molecular and morphological homologies) p406 |
| * The second broadest taxonomic category after domain is called _____. | kingdom p402 |
| * Similarities in structure due to similar natural selection pressures instead of common ancestry are called analogies and are due to ______ evolution. | convergent p406,  |
| * Homologies (phenotypic and genetic similarities due to shared ancestry) may look quite different from each other due to ____ evolution. | divergent p406 (It doesn't explicitly mention divergent evolution in this version of the book anymore, but you should know this) |
| * Name the three domains and label each as being either prokaryotic or eukaryotic. | Archaea (prokaryotic), Bacteria (prokaryotic), Eukarya (eukaryotic) p415 |
| * Which prokaryotic domain seems to be most closely related to the Eukarya based on molecular studies? | Archaea (Analysis of other genes however suggest that the domain bacteria might be more closely related to Eukarya. For example, genes that influence metabolism in yeast are more similar to those in the domain Bacteria. To further complicate matters, horizontal gene transfer between domains early on make it difficult to know where genes originated from) p415 |
| * _____ is the process by which genes are transferred from one genome to another through mechanisms such as viral infection, exchange of transposable elements or plasmids, and perhaps even the fusion of organisms. | Horizontal gene transfer (It appears that there may have been horizontal gene transfer between bacteria and early eukaryotic organisms) p416 |
