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Question 1
Place the following events in order from the oldest to the most recent:
1. the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction

2. the Permian-Triassic extinction
3. the Cambrian explosion
4. the first flowering plants
Your Answer Score
1,2,3,4
3,2,4,1 Correct 1.00
3,2,1,4
2,3,4,1
Total 1.00 / 1.00
Question 2
What do scientists consider the three main lineages (sometimes referred to as domains) on the
Tree of Life?
Your Answer S
bilateria, radiolara, mesozoa
plant kingdom , animal kingdom, microbial kingdom
Protostome, Deuterostome, Ecdysozoa
Archaea, Bacteria, Eucarya Correct 1
Total 1
Question 3
To calibrate time on the Tree of Life:
Your Answer
A fossil of a known age can be placed on the tree which establishes the minimum age of its sister group a
for deeper nodes.
All fossils of a known species can be dated and averaged to establish the date of appearance of that linea
A fossil of known age can never be reliably placed on a molecular phylogeny and so we can only rely on
molecular data.
A fossil of a known age can be placed on the Tree of Life to establish the maximum age of nearby nodes
Total
Question 4
Which of these statements is not true of the movement of life from the oceans onto the land?
Your Answer
At least two different invasions of land by arthropods may have occurred.
The fossil record shows that once an organism has evolved into a land-based organism, its evolutionary
diversification then prevents an evolutionary pathway back into marine environments.
Bacteria and Archaea possibly invaded land-based aqueous systems as long ago as 2.5 billion years ago.
The earliest lineages of land plants include mosses, liverworts, and hornworts and appeared on Earth betw
400 million to 500 million years ago.
Total
Question 5
As scientists refine the Tree of Life they learn that:
Your Answer
The biosphere has been shown to evolve independently of tectonic changes that involve the continents on
Earth.
The Earths geochemical cycles, climate and atmospheric cycles, and erosion patterns can be linked to th
diversity, abundance, and metabolic processes of life at any particular point in time.
Molecular data is not helpful in establishing the timing of events on the Tree of Life.
The independence of the history of life from the geologic processes on Earth has been well established.
Total
Question 6
What does evolutionary devlopmental biology (Evo-Devo) tell us about evolution?
Your Answer
A single regulatory gene seems to come in play only once during development and this necessitates the l
number of genes devoted solely to developmental events.
Each vertebrate species follows a very different development path utilizing its own genetic toolkit to
accomplish regulatory processes.
The principal regulatory genes associated with embryonic development are conserved across phyla.
Hox genes regulate different developmental tasks in different organisms.

Total
Question 7
As scientists have sequenced proteins, they have found evidence for all of the following
EXCEPT which one:
Your Answer
The expression of regulatory genes at different times and places gives rise to the diversity seen in differe
groups of organisms.
All living things are connected, genetically and morphologically, to a single common ancestor.
The expression of regulatory genes at different times and places gives rise to the same structures in differ
types of organisms creating identical morphology in different creatures.
The biodiversity that occurs is partly the result of evolutionary changes within regulatory DNA.
Total
Question 8
In researching the lower Congo River:
Your Answer
Scientists have found that beneath the surface of the river, isolated deep canyons and river hydrology has
generated barriers that have resulted in allopatric speciation of fish.
Scientists have found that the large volume of water movement along the river has allowed for a single
ecosystem to flourish which contains many unique species found throughout the river system.
Scientists have tried to map the river system, but present technology limits the ability to measure depths
currents in fast flowing rivers.
Scientists think that the turbulent hydrology has limited the ability for speciation in this complex environ
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Question 9
Which of the following are NOT factors that may result in background extinctions?
Your Answer
biotic factors such as competition and predation
environmental changes that result in increased temperature and moisture gradients
changes in land forms that result in population fragmentation
impacts of large asteroids such as the one that struck Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period
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Question 10
The analysis of biodiversity in Thoreaus woods indicates that:
Your Answer
Organisms that have declined or increased tend to fall in groups of related organisms (clades).
There has been little change in biodiversity since Thoreaus record keeping.
All of the organisms in the woods are in decline because of climate change.
All of the organisms in the woods are thriving due to warmer temperatures.
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1. the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction

Your Answer Score

3,2,4,1 Correct 1.00

Total 1.00 / 1.00

bilateria, radiolara, mesozoa

plant kingdom , animal kingdom, microbial kingdom

Protostome, Deuterostome, Ecdysozoa

Archaea, Bacteria, Eucarya Correct 1

At least two different invasions of land by arthropods may have occurred.

Hox genes regulate different developmental tasks in different organisms.

biotic factors such as competition and predation

environmental changes that result in increased temperature and moisture gradients

changes in land forms that result in population fragmentation

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