Taxonomy Post Quiz - Chris Dominy | Laabri | Nneɛma a ɛma wotumi yɛ ade

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The gray squirrel, Eastern fox squirrel, and red squirrel are all different species of squirrels. Why is having a scientific name for each species of an organism important?

To prevent existing named organisms from having their names changed as they become extinct

To keep the classification system from being altered as new organisms are discovered

To allow organisms to be placed in many classification levels at the same time

To standardize the naming and organization of organisms to avoid confusion

Organisms are classified today using the Linnaean system, and the following table shows the taxonomic classification of two marine organisms living along the Pacific Coast.

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Taxonomic classification is important to marine biologists because it provides a way to —

prove that marine evolution occurs

discover and name every marine organism on Earth

designate Latin as the universal language of marine biology

identify marine organisms and find evolutionary relationships between them

The classifications of four trees are shown in the table.

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Which two trees are the most closely related?

Taiwan beech and Taiwan catkin yew

Taiwan catkin yew and lodgepole pine

Lodgepole pine and Japanese maple

Japanese maple and Taiwan beech

A student used a microscope to study four members of the phylum Ciliophora. Members of this phylum move when propelled by hundreds of tiny cilia.

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Although these organisms belong to the same phylum, they are classified as different —

families

species

kingdoms

orders