Chapter 9

Question 1

What are the characteristics of the respective members of the 5 kingdoms?

Answer 1

backbone, lungs, claws, fur (mamary gland), opposable thumbs

Question 2

On the cladogram of all vertebrates, what characteristic do reptiles and mammals share that amphibians lack?

Answer 2

claws or nails

Question 3

Look at the butterflies. What is the closest living relative (or relatives) of E?

Answer 3

H

Question 4

Look at the butterflies.What is the closest living relative (or relatives) of A?

Answer 4

H

Question 5

Draw the final tree of the butterflies. Now, redraw it with different letters at the end points but showing the exact same evolutionary relationships.

Answer 5

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Question 6

Are butterflies B and D more closely related to each other or to the Ancestor?

Answer 6

to each other

Question 7

How many butterflies share the characteristic of having a dark forewing?

Answer 7

5

Question 8

What do we call the group the butterflies in #7 form?

Answer 8

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Question 9

In the scavenger hunt, there are several obviously closely-related organisms and others that are obviously only very distantly related. Who is most closely related to “I have no teeth but eat meat?”

Answer 9

red tailed hawk

Question 10

Also from the scavenger hunt, what other 2 organisms are clearly related to the pine-cone group?

Answer 10

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