The best classification system is that which most closely
reflects evolutionary history.
Which obsolete kingdom includes prokaryotic organisms?
Monera
Members of which kingdom have cell walls and are all heterotrophic?
Fungi
Which kingdom has been replaced with two domains?
Monera
Which eukaryotic kingdom is polyphyletic and therefore not acceptable, based on cladistics?
Protista
Which kingdoms include free-living photosynthetic organisms?
Plantae, Protista, Monera
discovered ribozymes
Cech and Altman
used SSU-rRNA sequences to propose major modifications to the "tree of life"
Carl Woese
synthesized organic monomers in an apparatus designed to simulate early Earth's conditions
Miller and Urey
proposed the five-kingdom classification system
Robert Whittaker
early proponent(s) of the idea that a reducing atmosphere and energy inputs might have been sufficient to introduce organic monomers to Earth's environment
Oparin and Haldane
The first prokaryotic cells appeared during the
Precambrian.
Most modern animal phyla evolved during the ________ era.
Paleozoic
Which of these events occurred earliest in the history of Earth?
formation of oxygen
Which of these events occurred during the Paleozoic?
colonization of land by plants
In the two-kingdom system, why were fungi classified in the kingdom Plantae?
They are sedentary
