Question

Nature is messy. Science is tentative. As long as these truths remain relevant to biological research, scientific names will continue to be revised. -R. Aidan Martin

What does this quotation suggest about how a classification system needs to function to support modern science? (2 points)


It needs to provide a strictly limited system to reduce confusion and disarray.


It must be flexible enough to adapt to new discoveries and still provide a meaningful framework.


It needs to loosely group similar organisms until all organisms are fully studied.


It must have enough categories to accommodate all future discoveries while retaining its original structure.

While snorkeling in the ocean you find large, leafy organisms that are brownish in color growing in large masses. You are unsure whether they are protists since they look quite plant-like. If they are actually protists, what characteristic will the organism's cells exhibit? (2 points)


Each of the cells in the organism will have its own nucleus.


The cells will form a colony with separate groups of cells doing various jobs.


The cells will form a colony without differentiating into separate tissues.


Most of the cells in the organism will have cilia or flagella.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of fungus-like protists? (2 points)


Asexual reproduction


Cell walls


Autotrophic


Produce spores

Answer 1

The first question would be, b! I took the test

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Answer 2

Asexual reproduction