Intro to Zoology TeSt Review NAME________________

1. Review Vocab from Organizer

2. What are the basic characteristics of all animals?

3. Why is it important to classify and give organisms a scientific name?

4. What is taxonomy?
5. What language was used to name organisms?
6. What is the two word naming system called?
7-9. What are the three rules of the system?
1) 2) 3)
10.Who was responsible for creating the naming system and the 7 taxonomic categories?
11. The first word is the genus of the organism. What is the second?
12. What is a taxon?
13. Name Linnaeus’ 7 taxonomic categories from largest to smallest.
14. What tool do scientists use to identify the scientific name of an organism?
15. How many choices exist at each step?__Make sure you know how to use one of these tools.
16. What is the function for each system below?
Respiratory-
Circulatory
Excretory-
Skeletal-
Muscular-
Digestive-

17. What process do simple animals use that do not have body systems? _____________ ( Hint:Movement of
materials from HIGH to LOW concentration.)

18. How is evolutionary classification different from traditional classification?

Traditional- Modern
Evidence used _______________________ ____________________
Categories ____________________________ ____________________________
19. What is a derived character? ___________________________________? What can they be used to
construct?____________
20. Are similarities in DNA and RNA more likely to show relationships between organisms than physical
characteristics??

21. Molecular analyses have given rise to a new taxonomic category. What is it?
Is this category more general than the kingdom category?
22.What domain does Kingdom Animalia belong to?

23. Who is the naturalist that came up with the mechanism for evolution?_____________
24. What process leads to evolution?
25. What is a cladogram?
26. a)Over time, does natural selection result in changes of the inherited characteristics of a population?
b)_____ If these changes occur in a population, this can lead to ________________- one group remaining
separate long enough to produce a new species.
 30. What type of organism are primates most closely
related to according to the cladogram?
31.Are crocodiles more closely related to amphibians or
dinosaurs and birds?_____________
32. According to the cladogram, did amphibians evolve from
fish? _____

33. What are the new characteristics that show up in

a lineage called?_______________
34. What are 4 examples of these traits on this
cladogram?

35. What type of animals have vertebrae, but do not have a

bony skeleton?
36. What type have vertebrae, four limbs, and amniotic egg, and hair?

37.Porifera- _____________________
38. Describe characteristics of sponges.

39. How do sponges reproduce asexually?

40. How do sponges reproduce sexually?

41. Describe the lifestyle of a sponge.

42. Why are sponges so important?

Use the following choices to fill-in the blanks in the diagram below
a. Zygote AB. Endoderm
b. blastopore BC. Mesoderm
c. Blastula (ball of cells) CD. ectoderm
d. Sperm
e. Egg

43 44 45

48(outer)
46 49 (middle)
50 (inner)

47(hole)
20 (hole)