This is a biology or life science unit test on classification of living organisms and taxonomy. There are 95 items on the test, including fill in the blank, matching, critical thinking, and multiple choice. You will receive a test that is ready to be copied and passed out to your students.

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Topics covered are:
1. The need for a system of classification
2. Summary of Darwin's Theory of Evolution
3. Taxonomy
4. Early attempts at classification: Aristotle, misuse of common names
5. Linnaeus: Seven levels of classification, binomial nomenclature, definition of species, the rules of binomial nomenclature
6. Modern taxonomy: phylogeny, phylogenetic tree, reading a phylogenetic tree
7. Homologous, analogous, and vestigial structures
8. Modern taxonomy is based on: structural similarity, cellular organization, evolutionary relationships, biochemical similarities, genetic similarities, embryological similarities
9. Cladistics and cladograms: Students will look at a cladogram and answer questions about it
10. History of the Kingdoms: 2-kingdom system, 3-kingdom system, 5-kingdom system, and the 6-kingdom system
11. Three domain system of classification
12. Comparison of the kingdoms in the 6-kingdom system
13. Mechanisms that serve as barriers between the species
14. The dichotomous key to classification

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