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Pre-Lab Review Questions Due at Start of Lab

This document contains 13 pre-lab review questions for a biology lab on classification and evolutionary relationships. The questions cover topics like taxonomy, the hierarchical classification system, taxonomic ranks, methods for categorizing species other than morphology, explaining fossil gaps, diagrams of dichotomies and polytomies, common ancestors, vestigial and homologous structures, analogous structures, and convergent evolution. Students are asked to define key terms, describe the modern taxonomy system, create a pneumonic for taxonomic ranks, and draw requested diagrams.

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Pre-Lab Review Questions Due at Start of Lab

This document contains 13 pre-lab review questions for a biology lab on classification and evolutionary relationships. The questions cover topics like taxonomy, the hierarchical classification system, taxonomic ranks, methods for categorizing species other than morphology, explaining fossil gaps, diagrams of dichotomies and polytomies, common ancestors, vestigial and homologous structures, analogous structures, and convergent evolution. Students are asked to define key terms, describe the modern taxonomy system, create a pneumonic for taxonomic ranks, and draw requested diagrams.

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Bio 51 Lab 6 Classification and Evolutionary Relationships

PRE-LAB REVIEW QUESTIONS


DUE AT START OF LAB

Name: ________________________________
Section: ______________________

1) What does taxonomy mean, and who established the modern system that we use?

2) What does the term hierarchical mean in the sense of classification systems?

3) What are the taxonomic ranks starting from Domain and ending with Species?

4) Create your own pneumonic using the taxonomic ranks (D-K-P-C-O-F-G-S).


(example: Dutiful King Philip Came Over From Greece Singing)

5) What is the standard practice for underlining or italicizing the taxonomical names in written work?

6) Other than using cues that can be observed by looking at organisms (i.e. morphology), what are some
other methods to categorize different species?

7) How can you explain fossils that skip ages?


For example what if there is a fossil at 15 mya, but then connects to a fossil at 12 mya.

8) Draw a diagram showing a dichotomy, and another diagram showing a polytomy, for example a
trichotomy.

9) What does it mean for two species to have a common ancestor?

10) What is a vestigial structure?

11) What does homology mean?

12) What is an analogous structure?

13) What does convergent evolution mean?

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