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The colonization of multicellular animals on land took place during the Cambrian explosion? T or F? |
False |
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Plants became established on land before multicellular animals T or F? |
True |
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The ancestor of modern day land plants is a multicellular green algae of the Charophyta. T or F? |
True |
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Ferns were much more abundant in the Permian than the Carboniferous. T or F? |
False |
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What were the first tetrapods to colonize land? |
Amphibians |
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When did the tetrapods invade land? |
Late Devonian |
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If black bears and brown bears live in the same region, but the black bears live in the forest and brown bears by the river, what seperates them from breeding? |
Habitat isolation |
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What is NOT an eon in the geological time scale of earth? |
Precambrian |
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When did life first appear on earth? |
Archean |
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Cladogenesis is a microevolutionary process that gives rise to 2 or more species T or F? |
False. It's a macroevolution |
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Read that haha |
Answer is D |
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Alfred Russel Wallace considered sexual selection to be a seperate process from natural selection. T or F? |
False, it was Darwin that considered it seperate. Alfred thought that they were the same thing |
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The adult hawk moth has eye patches on its wings that resemble the eyes of an owl. This moth is a good example of |
Batesian mimicry |
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The front limbs of a turtle and a dolphin represent what kind of characteristic(s) |
Analagous, homologous and homoplasious characteristics |
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The structure of the leaf and the body of the body of the leaf cutter leaf cutter insects are What kind of of characteristic? |
Homoplaisous |
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Do domestic cats share a common ancestor with the polar bear? T or F |
True, everything has a common ancestor |
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Do saberteeth in both species of mammal represent homologous characters? Yes or no? |
No |
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Do saberteeth in both species of mammal represent analagous characters? Yes or no? |
Yes |
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Do saberteeth in both species of mammal represent homoplaisous characters? Yes or no? |
Yes |
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In the evolutionary history of bears(family ursidae), the ancestral bear belongs to what genus? |
Cephalogale |
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Who is the founder of paleontology? |
George Cuvier |
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What was Darwins position on the HMS Beagle? |
Captain's gentleman |
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What are homologous characters? |
Same relation, position, or structure |
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What are Analagous characters? |
Similar function |
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What are Homoplaisous characters? |
Similar appearance |
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What are Vestigial characters? |
Structures of no apparent function |
