classification test

Question 1

what is radiometric dating

Answer 1

uses radioactive isotopes to find the EXACT age

Question 2

what is relative dating

Answer 2

uses layers of the earth to estimate order of appearance/disappearence in fossils

Question 3

what is graduilsm (a rate of evolution)

Answer 3

slow, steady evolution

Question 4

what is punctuated equilibrium (a rate of evolution)

Answer 4

long periods of genetic equiliobrium followed by rapid bursts of revolutionary change

Question 5

what arre the patterns of macroevolution

Answer 5

divergent, convengent, adaptive radiation, coevolution

Question 6

what is adaptive radiation

Answer 6

one species evolves into several quickly

Question 7

what are the conditions of early earth

Answer 7

no free oxygen, extreme hot, asteroids/comets, volcanoes

Question 8

what are the first compounds found

Answer 8

unicellular prokaryotes (anaerobic)

Question 9

describe the miller and urey experiment

Answer 9

they recreated the conditions of early earth to test for organic compounds

Question 10

what did miller and urey find

Answer 10

amino acids and sugar

Question 11

how was the atmosphere filled

Answer 11

photosynthetic prokaryotes filled the atmoshpere

Question 12

what kind of classificatiuon did linnaeus use

Answer 12

traditional classification

Question 13

what was linnaeus’s system based on

Answer 13

anatomical similaritys and differences

Question 14

what is the term linnaeus used

Answer 14

taxa

Question 15

what is the order of taxa for classification

Answer 15

kingdom, phyllum, class, order, family, genus, species

Question 16

what is binomial nomenclature used for

Answer 16

a system for naming organisms

Question 17

how is the first word of a name written

Answer 17

capitilized in italics

Question 18

what taxa is the first word

Answer 18

genus

Question 19

what taxa is the second word

Answer 19

species

Question 20

how is the second word written

Answer 20

lowercase in italics

Question 21

what are derived characteristics

Answer 21

what traits arise before each organism

Question 22

describe domain bacteria

Answer 22

prokaryotes, unicellular, asexual, cell wall with peptidoglycan, MOST COMMON (some helpful/some harmful)

Question 23

what kingdom is bacteria

Answer 23

eubacteria

Question 24

describe domain archea

Answer 24

prokaryotic, unicellular, asexual, NO peptidoglycan, LIVE IN EXTREME ENVIORMENTS

Question 25

what kingdom are archea in

Answer 25

archaebacteria

Question 26

what type of bacteria was first on earth

Answer 26

archae

Question 27

what type domain has peptidoglycan

Answer 27

domain bacteria

Question 28

describe domain eukarya and its kingdoms

Answer 28

eurkaryotic with 4 kingdoms (protista, fungi, plantae, animalia)

Question 29

describe kingdom protista

Answer 29

unicellular, both sexual and asexual, MOST DIVERSE, (plants and animals)

Question 30

describe kingdom fungi

Answer 30

multicellular, asexual and sexual, cell wall of CHITIN

Question 31

how do fungi reproduce asexually

Answer 31

spores

Question 32

what do heterotrophs (mushrooms do to in take food)

Answer 32

absorb

Question 33

describe kindom plantae

Answer 33

multicellular, asexual and sexual, all autotrophs, cell wall of CELLULOSE

Question 34

describe kingdom animalia

Answer 34

multicellular, heterotrophs, sexual

Question 35

what does the cell wall of domain bacteria contain

Answer 35

peptidoglycan

Question 36

what does the cell wall of kingdom fungi contain

Answer 36

chitin

Question 37

what does the cell wall of kingdom plantae contain

Answer 37

cellulose