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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 did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?
(a) Organize the fossils.
(b) Recast the fossils.
(c) Study the fossils.
(d) Transport the fossils.

2. What adjectives describe Whittington?
(a) Thankful, gracious, kind.
(b) Mild, warm, liberal.
(c) Quiet, mousy, whimsical.
(d) Kind, conservative, mild-mannered.

3. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?
(a) 7 articles.
(b) 4 papers.
(c) 6 monographs.
(d) 5 papers on new phyla.

4. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?
(a) Kingdom to species.
(b) Orders to genera.
(c) Phyla to classes.
(d) Phyla to species.

5. Why is the Burgess Shale such an amazing find?
(a) It contains five thousand creatures.
(b) It contains soft-bodied creatures.
(c) It contains no creatures.
(d) It contains hard-bodied creatures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the 'grab bag' provided by the Burgess Shale consist of?

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

3. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?

4. How can scientists describe the structure of evolutionary inference?

5. What do bats superficially resemble?

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