Which of the following is a scientific name of a species?

1. Which of the following is a scientific name of a species?


a. bison bison


b. Mimus Polyglottis


c. homo Sapiens


d. Quercus alba





3. Which of the following would be a useful characteristic to use in cladistics?


a. derived characteristic


b. similar habitat


c. mutations


d. random differences





4. Which taxon contains the others?


a. family


b. species


c. order


d. phylum

Which of the following is a scientific name of a species?
1. d- it is a type of tree and the only one that follows the proper format for scientific names, the first letter of the first word must be captialized and the first letter of the second word must be lowercase





3. a (check source)





4. d
Reply:1. Which of the following is a scientific name of a species?


a. bison bison


b. Mimus Polyglottis


c. homo Sapiens


d. Quercus alba


d) A scientific name uses a capital letter for the genus and lower case for the species.)





3. Which of the following would be a useful characteristic to use in cladistics?


a. derived characteristic


b. similar habitat


c. mutations


d. random differences


a) Cladistics is the hierarchical classification of species based on evolutionary ancestry





4. Which taxon contains the others?


a. family


b. species


c. order


d. phylum


d) Phylum is larger than the other groups.


(If it helps I teach the following mnemonic


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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Genus, Species)





Hope this helps!
Reply:1. d


3. a


4. d