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

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

3. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Dissect them for a museum show.
(b) Reproduce them.
(c) Cyrogenically preserve them.
(d) Classify them into an already existing taxonomy.

4. How many levels are there in the taxonomy of life?
(a) None.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Several.
(d) Few.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?

2. What do bats superficially resemble?

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

4. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?

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

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