BIOL 101 STUDY GUIDE: QUIZ 8
Study Guide: Quiz 8
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An Infinity of Diversity |
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14.1 |
The Challenge of Classifying Life’s Diversity |
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A problem that confounds attempts to organize the entire living world for study is that it is unknown how many separate ____________ of life forms exist on this planet. |
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A problem that confounds attempts to organize the entire living world for study is that there are too many organisms with too much overlapping ____________ to support a simple means of classification. |
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A problem that confounds attempts to organize the entire living world for study is the need of evolutionists to bring the entire diversity of living things ultimately into ____________ ____________. |
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14.2 |
Classification: Engaging the Challenge |
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Seeking to scientifically name each variety of life form found and relate it to other similar species is a discipline known as ____________. |
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The term ____________ refers to attempts to derive a biologically meaningful filing system for organizing genera and species. |
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What criteria are used for collecting species of organisms into a genus? |
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Compared to a species, a ____________ is more inclusive, with broader structural and functional variations. |
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Be able to properly write the scientific name for human beings according to the rules for naming species. |
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The convention used for representing scientific names for newly discovered species is that ____________ root words are used in order to name the organism’s primary ____________ ____________. |
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List these 4 taxonomic levels in their correct order, from least inclusive to most inclusive: species, genus, family, order |
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List these 5 taxonomic levels in their correct order, from least inclusive to most inclusive: family, order, class, phylum, kingdom |
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14.3 |
Characteristics Used in Classification |
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List and describe 7 basic characteristics used to classify living things. |
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14.4 |
Using Characteristics: Priorities and Presuppositions |
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The state of flux in modern systematic groupings could best be described as/seen in a variety of conflicting kingdom or ____________ structures. |
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List 2 currently accepted classification schemes shared in your text. Each scheme attempts to take in all known organisms. |
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In the mind of evolutionary theorists, separate clades (large groups) derived from a single common ____________ at the point where clade lineages meet. |
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In the minds of design theorists, separate clades (large groups) derived from separate ____________ in the Mind of a Designer. |
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14.5 |
Using Characteristics to Derive Groups |
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List the names of 10 groups of living organisms and a representative species of organism belonging to each group. |
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List 10 small sets of defining characteristics that can be used to place organisms within each of the 10 groups. |
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Ecology: Interactivity by Design |
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Your textbook describes two sequential ____________ of interaction between organisms and their environments that have existed since God’s creative work began. |
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15.1 |
Thinking like an Ecologist: Exploring a Lake |
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Name the 3 zones of life found in a lake. |
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The phytoplankton of a lake would be found in highest numbers in the ____________ zone. |
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During the springtime, a light wind blowing across a lake will foster the process of lake overturn. This timely event will bring together accumulated ____________ with living ____________. |
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Explain how the unusual relative densities of water and ice are critical to the viability of life in a deep lake. |
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15.2 |
Hierarchical Organization in Ecology |
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List the names of several different levels of organization at which ecology is studied. |
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Studying competition between the Peaks of Otter salamander and the Eastern redback salamander would be an example of studying ecology at the ____________ level. |
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At which of the levels of organization listed above can the Peaks of Otter salamander be studied? |
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15.3 |
Organismal Ecology |
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The functional role of a species within its habitat is referred to as its ____________. |
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An area providing cool, moist conditions with rocks and decaying logs at an appropriate elevation and rainfall level constitutes a good ____________ for the Peaks of Otter salamander. |
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15.5 |
Community Ecology |
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A relationship between individuals of two species in which members of one species are benefited and members of the other species are unaffected is termed ____________. |
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The relationship between the wildebeest and Thompson’s gazelle represents a good example of commensalism. |
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Interspecific Competition |
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Define the phrase “interspecific competition” in terms of how the species within its relationship are affected. |
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Explain why young Balanus barnacles cannot compete with Chthamalus barnacles in higher intertidal regions. |
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How do species of warblers (birds) living in the same general region minimize their interspecific competition? |
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One Species Benefits and the Other is Adversely Affected |
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Baleen whales use ____________ to prey on herring fish. |
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Thorns, toxic products of metabolism, fuzzy structures, and predator satiation are all defense tactics that what large group of organisms use to keep from being preyed upon? |
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When a species of fly has a bold coloration very similar to that of an unpalatable (stinging) yellow jacket, the fly’s “strategy” is termed ____________ ____________. |
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Both Species Benefit |
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The best term to describe the species-species interaction between Pseudomyrmex ants and the bullhorn acacia plant would be ____________. |
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In the human and greater honeyguide mutualism, how is the honeyguide bird benefited? |
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15.7 |
A Final Word about Our Interaction with God’s Household |
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Summarize a rationale for why a fallen, decaying created order still needs to be stewarded carefully by its human inhabitants. |
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