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

2. What are the two Ps?
(a) Promotion and progressive.
(b) Predilect and prominent.
(c) Primitive and precursor.
(d) Progression and Promise.

3. What do bats superficially resemble?
(a) Birds.
(b) Mammals.
(c) Albatross.
(d) Predators.

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

5. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Brilliant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Burgess Shale's mysteries become apparent?

2. What kind of interpretation did Morris want of the Burgess Shale fossils?

3. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?

4. How was Whittington inclined to see Opabinia?

5. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?

(see the answer key)

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