Question

1. Place the following taxonomic groups in order, from largest to smallest: class, domain, family, genus, kingdom, order, phylum, species, subspecies.
2. How does genetic diversity affect a population's chances of survival?

Answer 1

1. Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, and subspecies.

2. If a variety of the species with a certain gene is vulnerable to a specific disease, predator, or environmental development, other members of the species with variants of the gene may be better equipped to handle the problem, and the species won't die out, just a portion of the disadvantaged.

Answer 2

1.) Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, and subspecies.

2.) Genetic diversity affects a populations chanvce of survival because it could either save them from dieing or kill them off. For example, an bug can have a wing pattern that look like the green leaves in the forest, but all of a sudden it snows and now the bug is easly spotted and eaten.