Exam 10: Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Animals

"A characteristic reaction and mutual relationship between environment and organism,a way of life and not a place where life is led" is the classical description of a/an ___________ _________.

Characters used to distinguish one group from another must be

A phylogeny based on evolutionary theory will

Which of the following correctly lists the ranks for living creatures,from largest and most inclusive to smallest and least inclusive?

Which of the following is NOT true of a cladogram?

Which is NOT one of the inherent conflicting features of the biological species concept?

What is character similarity that results from common embryology,and therefore ancestry,called?

Which of the following is NOT an important criterion for species recognition among the many definitions?

If a taxon includes the most recent common ancestor of a group of organisms and all of the descendants of that ancestor,it is termed ______.

What biochemical trait varies but is present throughout all of life,allowing the construction of an estimate of phylogeny?

Who developed the present system of classification?

A derived character shared by members of a clade is a _______________.

One way of establishing whether a character of an extant species is ancestral or derived is to locate a/an ______ and if the character occurs in both,it is likely ________.

What is a taxon that comprises a distinct adaptive zone?

A branching diagram representing a nested hierarchical pattern of clades is called a/an ________.

Museum type specimens are kept as "name bearers" for comparison when potentially new species are discovered.However,the original use of type specimens reflected a sense of the "ideal" or "perfect" specimen as seen in the ______ species concept.

The dispute between evolutionary taxonomy and cladistics can be described as a difference between

Homoplasy involves

Zoologists used to refer to animals as "simple" and "advanced." Now it is more scientifically accurate to use

Which of the following concepts of species is most compatible with the goals of cladistic systematics?