1. A primitive character is known as a. plesiomorphy b. apomorphy c. synapomorphy d. amorphy 2. What characteristic is observed in the organism such as the flippers of whales (mammals) or fins of sharks (fish) that share a trait but is different in morphological ancestry. b. homologous c. vestigial a. analogous d. divergent 3. If the similarity between two characters in two separate taxa is attributable to their presence in a common ancestor, then these two characters are said to be a. analogous b. homologous c. vestigial d. divergent
1. A primitive character is known as a. plesiomorphy b. apomorphy c. synapomorphy d. amorphy 2. What characteristic is observed in the organism such as the flippers of whales (mammals) or fins of sharks (fish) that share a trait but is different in morphological ancestry. b. homologous c. vestigial a. analogous d. divergent 3. If the similarity between two characters in two separate taxa is attributable to their presence in a common ancestor, then these two characters are said to be a. analogous b. homologous c. vestigial d. divergent
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GENERAL BIOLOGY 2
SUMMATIVE TEST: GENERAL BIOLOGY 2
Module 4
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I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
DIRECTIONS: Encircle the letter that corresponds to the correct answer. Avoid ERASURES.
1. A primitive character is known as
a. plesiomorphy
b. apomorphy
c. synapomorphy
d. amorphy
2. What characteristic is observed in the organism such as the flippers of whales (mammals) or fins of
sharks (fish) that share a trait but is different in morphological ancestry.
b. homologous
a. analogous
c. vestigial
d. divergent
3. If the similarity between two characters in two separate taxa is attributable to their presence in a
common ancestor, then these two characters are said to be
a. analogous b. homologous
c. vestigial
d. divergent
4. His works mainly focus on taxa that share many derived characters as opposed to those that do not
I have shared derived characters.
a. William Hen
b. Willi Hennig
c. Willi Hen d. William Hennig
5. Which of the following is NOT true about cladogram?
a. The branches at every node can be rotated.
b. Two lineages branching from a single ancestral node are known as sister taxa.
c. The organism in the base of the cladogram is the highly evolved one.
d. No extant or extinct taxon is considered ancestral to any other extant or extinct taxon.
6. This shows the putative evolutionary relationship. It also shows the taxa that is represented as
branches that bifurcate from nodes.
a. phylogenetic roots b. phylogenetic map c. phylogenetic tree d. phylogenetic forest
7. Is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are grouped together based on whether
or not they have one or more shared unique characteristics which are derived from the group's last
common ancestor and are not present in more distant ancestors.
a. Phylogeny b. Cladistics
c. Systematics d. Taxonomy
8. Birds have wings, as do mosquitoes and flies. However, they do not share a recent, common ancestor.
This is known as
a. homology b. homoplasy
c. apomorphy
d. polyphyly
9. The evolutionary history of a certain species is referred to as its
b. classification
c. inheritance
a. domain
d. phylogeny
10. In a phylogenetic tree, what do you call the point which a split has occur, which shows a single lineage
evolving to two different branches.
a. trunk split b. branch point
c. interval
d. node
11. In a cladogram, this represents how organisms diverge into two or more species.
a. trunk split b. branch point
c. interval
d. node
12. What do you call certain organisms that are found to not possess shared derived traits with other
groups are classified in a cladistic study?
a. ingroup
b. outgroup
c. inward
d. outward
13. These are the traits inherited from the common ancestors of the group.
a. ancestral characters
b. derived characters c. normal characters d. common characters
14. The resulting diagram of reconstructing phylogenetic relationship is called
which depicts patterns of shared derived traits among groups of organisms.
a. Phylogenetic Tree b. Cladogram
c. Clade
d. Taxon
15. In a phylogenetic tree, when two lineages stem from the same branch point, they are called
a. mother taxa
b. father taxa
c. sister taxa d. offspring taxa
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