Biodiversity - Quiz 1

Question 1

What is taxonomy?

Answer 1

Identifying, naming and classifying of organisms into species

Question 2

Definition of “species”

Answer 2

Group of organisms that can interbreed and produce offspring

Question 3

Whats a Eukaryotic Cell

Answer 3

A cell which contains a true nucleus

Question 4

What’s a prokaryotic cell?

Answer 4

A cell that doesn’t have a true nucleus

Question 5

Definition of a protist

Answer 5

A eukaryotic organism, usually unicellular and it’s not a plant, animal or fungus

Question 6

Phylogenetic Species Concept

Answer 6

Defining species based on evolutionary relationships among organisms

Question 7

Plants

Answer 7

They’re multicellular photosynthetic eukaryotic (having cellulose based cell walls)

Question 8

Morphological Species Concept

Answer 8

Defining species based on body shape and size

Question 9

Hierarchical Classification

Answer 9

Arranging organisms from most complex to least complex

Question 10

Heterotrophs

Answer 10

An organism that gets its energy from consuming other organisms

Question 11

Fungi

Answer 11

Heterotrophic eukaryotic organism
cell walls contain chitin

Question 12

Dichotomous Key

Answer 12

A tool used to classify organisms through a series of dichotomous questions

Question 13

Biological Species Concept

Answer 13

defines species based on the ability for the organisms to produce fertile offspring

Question 14

Binomial Nomenclature

Answer 14

a standardized way to name species

Question 15

bacteria

Answer 15

a individual prokaryotic cell

Question 16

Autotroph

Answer 16

an organism that can obtain its own energy from inorganic substances e.g plants, algae, plankton & bacteria

Question 17

The Linnean Classification System

Answer 17

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species (KPCOFGS)

grouped species into
levels based on shared characteristics

Question 18

Carolus von Linnaeus

Answer 18

1707-1778

swedish scientist who laid the foundation for modern taxonomy

Question 19

who created binomial nomenclature

Answer 19

Linneus

Question 20

Archea

Answer 20

individual prolaryotic cell