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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remainder of Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjectives describe Morris?
(a) Radical, immature.
(b) Antisocial, benevolent, gracious.
(c) Gracious, young, compassionate.
(d) Young, radical, antisocial.

2. What does Opabinia need?
(a) A new species.
(b) A new chordata.
(c) A new kingdom.
(d) A new phylum.

3. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?
(a) Six types.
(b) Vertebrate types.
(c) Types and sub-types.
(d) Invertebrate types.

4. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?
(a) Three.
(b) Ninety-eight.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Four.

5. What kind of picture do scientists have of multi-cellular animal life because of the Burgess Shale?
(a) Imagined.
(b) None.
(c) Distinct.
(d) General.

Short Answer Questions

1. What five new species did Morris find?

2. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?

3. What is the problem with the Burgess Shale in relation to many of the similarities and distinctions?

4. What is the classification of animal species specifically warned to not be made on alone?

5. What do Oxford advisers not spend much of their time on, according to Gould?

(see the answer key)

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