WHAT IS LIFE? A GUIDE TO BIO 3E+LAUNCHPA
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Although most animals we see in everyday life seem highly organized and advanced in their physiology, the animal kingdom still consists of a number of more primitive life forms, that first branched out from the common ancestor.
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4) What makes Archeopteryx an important fossil evolutionarily?
A)This species has a mix of characters that suggest it was a "transitional" species between two large groups, dinosaurs and birds.
B)This species is the oldest known, universally agreed upon, fossil of life, and therefore tells up what the common ancestor to all living things might have been like.
C)This species has a mix of characters that suggests is was a "transitional" species between two large groups, fish and amphibians.
D)This species is thought to be the last common ancestor between chimps and humans, and therefore is the root of our own specific group (homonins).
Examine the image of the relatedness of vertebrates represented in this phylogenetic tree. Which statements are correctly inferred from this tree? Select all that apply.
A) The mammals are the outgroup in this tree.
B) Birds and dinosaurs share a recent common ancestor.
C) Mammals and birds are more closely related than any other species.
D) Turtles are equally as diverged from lizards and snakes as they are from crocodiles.
E) Lizards and snakes are more recently diverged from each other than they are from crocodiles.
In the evolutionary tree of vertebrates, birds are most closely related to:
a) Mammals
b) Crocodiles
c) Placoderms
d) Salamanders
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