Quiz 1

Question 1

Who is the father of modern taxonomy

Answer 1

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 2

What two main categories did Aristotle classify animals?

Answer 2

blood and bloodless

Question 3

taxonomy

Answer 3

the study of classifications of organisms

Question 4

Binomial nomenclature

Answer 4

the two-part scientific name given to an organism

Tyrannosaurus rex

must be italic

Question 5

Traditional (Linnean) Taxonomy

Answer 5

Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, order, Family, Genus Species

Question 6

Posterior

Answer 6

Rear

Question 7

Distal

Answer 7

away from the center of the body

Question 8

Proximal

Answer 8

near the center of the body`

Question 9

Dorsal

Answer 9

top of the body

Question 10

Ventral

Answer 10

bottom of the body

Question 11

anterior

Answer 11

front of the body

Question 12

Phylogeny

Answer 12

an evolutionary tree that indicates closeness of relationships

Question 13

Cladistics

Answer 13

phylogenetic analysis involving the search for monophyletic groups by means of character analysis

Question 14

Clade

Answer 14

a group of taxa all united by common descent

Question 15

Grade

Answer 15

a group of taxa successively branching off a main stem

Question 16

Taxon

Answer 16

a particular species or clade

Question 17

outgroup

Answer 17

taxa outside the clade of interest

Question 18

ingroup

Answer 18

taxa within the clade of interest

Question 19

sister group

Answer 19

the most closely related group to the group of interest

Question 20

monophyly

Answer 20

a group of organisms descended from a single ancestor

Question 21

paraphyly

Answer 21

a group that includes the most recent common ancestor

Question 22

polyphyly

Answer 22

unrelated organisms descended from more than one ancestor

Question 23

Character

Answer 23

an observable trait

Question 24

apomorphy

Answer 24

a character distinct to a particular taxon

Question 25

Synapomorphy

Answer 25

an apomorphy uniting two or more taxa that is particular to those taxa

Question 26

plesiomorphy

Answer 26

a character uniting two more taxa that is retained from more basal taxa

Question 27

Homology

Answer 27

resemblance in biological structure or function that is the result of shared common ancestry

Question 28

analogy

Answer 28

comparable biological structures or functions that arose independently

Question 29

extant phylogenetic bracket

Answer 29

a fossil organism should be interpreted in light of the living organisms that bracket it in the phylogenetic tree

Question 30

problems of traditional Christian thought

Answer 30

Doesn’t match the world we see around us Is not demanded by Scripture Creates theological/philosophical problems when it comes to natural evil.

Question 31

Darwinism

Answer 31

similarities are due to common descent

Question 32

Problems with darwinism

Answer 32

Convergence horizontal gene transfer

Question 33

Common Blueprint

Answer 33

Organisms share similarities because they exist in a nested hierarchy because of a common blueprint used by the Creator

Question 34

Common Descent

Answer 34

These are similarities due to descent from a common ancestor

Question 35

Common Event

Answer 35

Organisms that share similarities that they developed in real time because of Convergence Horizontal Gene Transfer

Question 36

Common Function

Answer 36

Some organisms share similarities because of the created function, but not because of nested hierarchy.

Question 37

Baraminology

Answer 37

Discontinuity Systematics + Young Earth Creationism

Question 38

Holobaramin

Answer 38

A group containing all organisms that share continuity and are discontinuous from all other organisms

Question 39

Monobaramin

Answer 39

A group of organisms sharing continuity

Question 40

Apobaramin

Answer 40

A group of organisms that are discontinuous from all other organisms

Question 41

Polybaramin

Answer 41

An artificial grouping of organisms, not considering continuity or discontinuity

Question 42

What are dinosaurs

Answer 42

Vertebrate Reptiles Diapsids Archosaurs Archosaurs with erect posture, perforated acetabulum, ascending astragalar process on front surface of tibia

Question 43

archosaurs

Answer 43

ruling reptiles