Name ______

Period ______

Chapter 17 Study Guide Questions

Complete these questions as part of your test preparation. You should study this sheet as well as your class notes for Chapter 17 to prepare for the test.

1. In the name Papio annubis what is the genus component of the name? ______

2. To which other organism would Papio annubis be most closely related. Ursus annubis

or Papio cynocephalus?______Why?

3. With regard to Linnaeus' system of classification....

a. How many levels (taxons)?

b. What are the taxons?

c. What kingdoms did he identify?

d. How do the number of his kingdoms compare with the current number of kingdoms? Why is there a difference?

4. The broadest level of all of the classification groups is ______.

5. For many species there are often differences in their ______.

6. The domain ______contains the kingdom Archaebacteria.

7. The domain ______has four kingdoms; ______

______, ______, & ______.

8. ______analysis uses derived characteristics to establish

______relationships.

9. What are the rules to follow when writing as scientific name? a) name is written in

Latin, b) ______c) ______

10. What is a dichotomous key and how is it used?

11. Traditional classification uses ______similarities

to group organisms whereas modern classification uses those similarities and

______similarities to group organisms and

establish evolutionary relationships.

12. Similar genes are evidence of ______ancestry.

13. Complete the chart:

Classification of Living Things
DOMAIN / Bacteria / Archaea / Eukarya
KINGDOM / Eubacteria / Archaebacteria / Protista / Fungi / Plantae / Animalia
CELL TYPE / Prokaryote / Eukaryote / Eukaryote / Eukaryote
CELL STRUCTURES / Cell walls with peptidoglycan / Cell walls without peptidoglycan / Cell walls of cellulose; chloroplasts / No cell walls or chloroplasts
NUMBER OF CELLS / Unicellular / Most unicellular; some colonial; some multicellular / Most multicellular; some unicellular / Multicellular
MODE OF NUTRITION / Autotroph or heterotroph / Autotroph or heterotroph / Heterotroph

14. What are three of the characteristics of the Class Mammalia?

15. Explain this statement: Size and shape are not a good indicator of how closely two species are related.

16. Make a cladogram showing at least 5 nodes. Explain what a cladogram tells scientists.