Biology Study Guide Unit 10, 11, & 12 (ANSWERS)
Unit 10 - Classification
1. Memorize this table on characteristics of living organisms in the kingdoms Eubacteria, Archeabacteria, Protista, Fungi,
Plantae, and Animalia.
2. Seven levels for classification in the correct order from largest to smallest (KPCOFGS)
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
3. What are the 3 domains and know which kingdoms are under each one?
Domain Bacteria Domain Archaea Domain Eukarya
Eubacteria Archaebacteria Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
4. What is binomial nomenclature? What is the genus and which is the species?
- A two-word naming system in which the first name (genus name) is capitalized and the second name (species
name) is lowercased.
5. What is a cladogram used for?
- illustrates how groups of organisms are related to one another by showing how evolutionary lines, or lineages,
branched off from common ancestors
6. Given a figure, be able to read a cladogram to understand ancestry
7. What is embryology?
-Is the study of how early developmental stages of many animals with backbones (vertebrates) look very
similar.
8. What makes fungi different from the rest of the kingdoms in the domain Eukarya?
-One type of fungi is a mushroom; fungi are heterotrophs that cannot make food by photosynthesis
9. Which kingdom in the domain Eukarya did the other kingdoms evolve from?
- The one that came first / Protista
Unit 11 – Mechanisms of Evolution/Mutations
10. What is evolution? Who came up with the theory of evolution?
- Evolution is the process of change over time / Charles Darwin came up with the theory of evolution and wrote
about it in his book Origin of Species
11. What other scientists contributed to the theory of evolution?
- Darwin, Malthus, Lamarck, Lyell, Wallace
12. Why was Miller-Urey experiment so sufficient?
