Chapter 1

Which animals were the first to be domesticated?

• Chicken

• Cat

• Dog

• Cattle

What are the oldest vertebrate group?

• Fish

• Mammals

• Aves

• Amphibia

What percentage of American households have a companion animal?

• 32

• 48

• 56

• 74

What is the most common type of animal utilized in a laboratory setting?

• Dogs

• Cats

• Guinea Pigs

• Rabbits

Facilities that use animals for research must be registered under whom?

• American Welfare Act

• USDA

• FDA

• Animal Welfare Act

What is the most common pet that Americans own?

• Fish

• Chickens

• Cats

• Dogs

__________ are the bony fish. This is a large group of vertebrate animals that live in the water and have permanent gills for breathing, fins, and a body covered in scales.

• Osteichthyes
• Aves

• Reptilia

• Mammalia

Animals with vertebrae are in phylum _________.

• Chordata
• Arthropoda
• Echinodermata
• Crustacea

__________ is a process by which animals change over time as a result of heritable physical or behavioral traits. The organism adapts to its environment to survive.

• Genetic selection
• Natural selection
• Mutations
• Taxa

What is the order of Linnaeus’s System of Classification?

• Kingdom, Class, Phylum, Order, Family, Genus, Species

• Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Family, Order, Genus, Species

• Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

• Kingdom, Family, Phylum, Class, Order, Genus, Species