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Classification of Living Things

Classification of Living Things quiz

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Question 1 of 3Easy

How many living species are in the genus Homo?

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  1. 1 Easy

    What kind of animal is a seahorse?

    Answer: Fish

    Why: Pregnancy is the father's job: male seahorses carry the eggs in a belly pouch and give birth to the young.

  2. 2 Medium

    Which land animal is the closest living relative of whales?

    Answer: Hippo

    Why: Whales sit inside the even-toed hoofed mammals with pigs, cows and camels, but hippos are their nearest branch.

  3. 3 Hard

    What is a group of one ancestor and all its descendants called?

    Answer: Clade

    Why: Clade comes from the Greek word klados, meaning branch, and each clade is one complete branch of the tree of life.

  4. 4 Easy

    What kind of mammal is a koala?

    Answer: Marsupial

    Why: At birth a koala is about the size of a jelly bean and finishes growing inside its mother's pouch.

  5. 5 Medium

    In which kingdom do biologists place sea sponges?

    Answer: Animals

    Why: Despite having no nerves, muscles or organs, sponges are animals, and the adults stay fixed in one spot.

  6. 6 Hard

    What is a repeated name like Gorilla gorilla called?

    Answer: Tautonym

    Why: Zoologists allow tautonyms such as Bison bison and Rattus rattus, but the rules for plant names forbid them.

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