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What is the science of describing, categorizing and naming organisms? A. systematics B. taxonomy C. cladistics D. phenetics correct answers B. Taxonomy What is the primary reason protists and bacteria are grouped into different domains? A. protists are made of cells but bacteria are not B. bacteria are unicellular but protists are multicellular C. bacteria lack a nucleus but protists have a nucleus D. protists are photosynthetic but bacteria are not E. protists eat bacteria correct answers C. bacteria lack a nucleus but protists have a nucleus If you were using cladistics to build a phylogenetic tree of cats, which of the following would be the best outgroup? A. lion B. domestic cat C. leopard D. wolf E. tiger correct answers D. wolf The mold that produces penicillin is Penicillium notatum. Penicillium is the name of its A. family B. order C. species D. specific epithet E. genus correct answers E. genus Which term best describes a group of organisms that contains a recent common ancestor and all of its descendants? A. horizontal gene transfer B. plesiomorphic C. polyphyletic D. monophyletic E. paraphyletic correct answers D. monophyletic Which of the following is the correct order of the taxa used to classify organisms? A. kingdom, domain, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species B. domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, order, genus, species