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This document is a quiz for a 9th grade biology class on the topic of classification of organisms. It includes a cladogram and questions about derived characters, scientific naming, and the classification systems of Aristotle and Linnaeus. Students are asked to identify shared derived characters, whether organisms have jaws, the earliest arising group, and those with four walking legs. They are also asked about the basis of Aristotle's system and the two-part scientific naming system.

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Cladogram Ws

This document is a quiz for a 9th grade biology class on the topic of classification of organisms. It includes a cladogram and questions about derived characters, scientific naming, and the classification systems of Aristotle and Linnaeus. Students are asked to identify shared derived characters, whether organisms have jaws, the earliest arising group, and those with four walking legs. They are also asked about the basis of Aristotle's system and the two-part scientific naming system.

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9th Biology – Classification of Organisms

April 27 – May 1
Student Name: ____________________________________

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9th Biology – Classification of Organisms
April 27 – May 1
Student Name: ____________________________________

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9th Biology – Classification of Organisms
April 27 – May 1
Student Name: ____________________________________

Quiz: Chapter 17
Directions: Complete the following.

CLADOGRAM
Use the cladogram to the right to answer
the following questions.

1. What are the derived characters shown


in this cladogram?
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2. Which two groups have the most shared derived characters?

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3. Does a lamprey have jaws? ___________________________________________________
4. Does a tuna have jaws? _____________________________________________________
4. Which group on the cladogram arose first? _____________________________________
6. List all the organisms shown in the cladogram that have four walking legs.
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SHORT ANSWER
_____________________7. On what basis did Aristotle classify living organisms?
_____________________8. What is the system of naming that involves giving an organism a
two-part name?
_____________________9. What are the two parts to this scientific name?
_____________________10. In what language is the scientific name written?

11. How are Aristotle’s and Linnaeus’s classification systems similar?


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9th Biology – Classification of Organisms
April 27 – May 1
Student Name: ____________________________________

12. Which of the following is the correctly written scientific name for the lion?
(a) Panthera leo (b) panther leo (c) Panthero leo (d) Panthero Leo

13. Which of the following would be an example of a derived character?


(a) the legs of insects (b) hair in mammals (c) the eyes of a fish (d) the chromosomes
in a horse.

14. In cladistics, the evolutionary relationship between two organisms is determined by:
(a) analogous structures (b) shared derived characters (c) homologous structures
(d) embryological relationships (e) structural similarity.

15. In cladistics, the evolutionary relationship between two organisms is determined by:
(a) analogous structures (b) shared derived characters (c) homologous structures
(d) embryological relationships (e) structural similarity.

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