CLASSIFICATION/TAXONOMY/SYSTEMATICS/PHYLOGENY REVIEW
1. What is meant by systematics?
2. What is meant by phylogeny?
3. Research AND draw a phylogenetic tree/cladogram illustrating the relationship between
the 3 DOMAINS of life.
4.
DOMAIN
Eubacteria
Archaebacteria
Eukarya
Prokaryotic or
Eukaryotic?
1 cell,
colonial, or
multicelled?
Information
about DNA?
Way(s) it
obtains
food?
Other
important
characteristics?
5.
KINGDOM
Eubacteria
Archaebacteria
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
Prokaryote
or
eukaryote?
1 cell,
colonial, or
multicelled
Information
about DNA?
Way(s)
it
obtains
food?
Cell wall or
not? (a
description
of it if so)
Mode(s) of
reproduction
Other
important
characteristics?
Example
organisms
6. Research AND draw a phylogenetic tree/cladogram for the 4 phyla or groups of land plants:
Bryophytes, Pterophytes, Gymnosperms, and Angiosperms.
7. DESCRIBE and/or DRAW the Alternation of Generations Life Cycle found in plants and in most
algae.
8. What is vascular tissue?
9. DESCRIBE the 2 types of vascular tissue.
10.What organism is considered by scientists to be a possible ancestor for land plants?
11. List several adaptations the land plants had to undergo to make the transition from a
possible aquatic ancestor to life on land.
12.
Plant Group
(Phylum)
Bryophyta
(Bryophytes)
Pterophyta
(Pterophytes)
Gymnosperms
(Cone-bearing
plants)
Angiosperms
(Flowering
plants)
Vascular tissue
or not?
Seeds or not?
Dominant
gametophyte or
dominant
sporophyte?
Mode(s) of
reproduction?
Other important
characteristics?
Examples of
plants found in
this phylum or
group
13. What is a coelomate? ALSO GIVE EXAMPLES OF ANIMALS.
14. What is an acoelomate? ALSO GIVE EXAMPLES OF ANIMALS.
15. What is a pseudocoelomate? ALSO GIVE EXAMPLES OF ANIMALS.
16. What is a protostome? ALSO GIVE EXAMPLES OF ANIMALS.
17. What is a deuterostome? ALSO GIVE EXAMPLES OF ANIMALS.
18. What is meant by radial body symmetry?
19. What is meant by bilateral body symmetry?
20. What organism is thought by scientists to be a possible ancestor for animals?
21. Research AND draw a phylogenetic tree/cladogram illustrating the relationship between the
phyla/groups of animals: Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Mollusca, Annelida,
Arthropoda, Echinodermata, Chordata/Vertebrata
22.
ANIMAL
PHYLUM
OR GROUP
Porifera
Cnidaria
Platyhelminthes
Nematoda
Mollusca
Annelida
Arthropoda
Echinodermata
Chordata
TYPE OF
BODY
SYMMETRY?
DOES IT
HAVE A
TRUE
COELOM
OR NOT?
DOES IT
HAVE A
SEGMENTED
BODY?
DOES IT HAVE A
SOFT BODY,
EXOSKELETON,
OR AN
ENDOSKELETON
HOW
MANY GUT
OPENINGS
DOES IT
HAVE?
OTHER
IMPORTANT
CHARACTERISTICS
EXAMPLE
ORGANISMS
23.
Vertebrate Describe How does
it do gas
Subphylum Outer
body
Fish
Amphibians
Reptiles
Birds (Aves)
Mammals
How many Ecotherm
Internal
heart
Or
Or
exchange? chambers? Endotherm? External
Fertilization?
Describe
The
Embryo’s
development
24.
Mammal
subgroup
Monotremes
Marsupials
Placentals
Important distinguishing
characteristics
Example Animals