CLASSIFYING LIFE

Identifying and organizing is not important to managing God’s creation.

• True

• False

In Genesis 2, God ______ Adam to name the animals.

• helped

• commanded

• asked

_____ is the science of classifying organisms.

Which of the following is true of taxonomic kingdoms?

• Their number may change in the light of new information.

• They are the highest level of taxon within the current classification system.

• Both A and B

• Neither A and B

Cladistic attempts to

• group organisms according to their evolutionary history.

• group organisms according to their created kinds.

• assign scientific names to organisms.

Baraminologists represent the diversity within biological kinds as _______.

• a phylogenetic tree

• a clade

• an orchard of life

The modern taxonomic system is a hierarchical system in which each level of classification consists of increasingly specific groups.

• True

• False

The term species is hard to define because there are exceptions to every definition.

• True

• False

An organism’s DNA allows for a great deal of variation, but there is no evidence that any organism is now evolving or has evolved into a different kind of organism.

• True

• False

He is known as the Father of a modern taxonomy.