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ISBN: 9780321962751

Author: Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Jane B. Reece

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 27, Problem 8TYU

FOCUS ON EVOLUTION

In Figure 27.29, circle the smallest monophyletic group that includes dinosaurs. Explain your answer and list the taxa that are in this clade. Knowing that birds are endothermic and crocodiles are ectothermic, can you use phylogenetic bracketing (see Concept 20.3) to predict whether dinosaurs other than birds are ectothermic or endothermic? Explain.

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Campbell Biology in Focus (2nd Edition)

Ch. 27.1 - Prob. 1CC Ch. 27.1 - Prob. 2CC Ch. 27.2 - What is the Cambrian explosion? Why is it...Ch. 27.2 - Prob. 2CC Ch. 27.3 - Prob. 1CC Ch. 27.3 - WHAT IF? Would it be accurate to describe the...Ch. 27.4 - Prob. 1CC Ch. 27.4 - Describe two key adaptations of aquatic...Ch. 27.4 - MAKE CONNECTIONS The radiation of bilaterians in...Ch. 27.5 - Describe two adaptations that have enabled insects...

Ch. 27.5 - MAKE CONNECTIONS Compare and contrast how the...Ch. 27.6 - Describe three key amniote adaptations for life on...Ch. 27.6 - Prob. 2CC Ch. 27.6 - WHAT IF? Which came first, the chicken or the egg?...Ch. 27.7 - Describe how ocean communities changed in the...Ch. 27.7 - Prob. 2CC Ch. 27.7 - Prob. 3CC Ch. 27 - Prob. 1TYU Ch. 27 - Fossil steroid and molecular clock evidence...Ch. 27 - Which of the following was probably the least...Ch. 27 - Prob. 4TYU Ch. 27 - Prob. 5TYU Ch. 27 - Prob. 6TYU Ch. 27 - Prob. 7TYU Ch. 27 - FOCUS ON EVOLUTION In Figure 27.29, circle the...Ch. 27 - FOCUS ON ORGANIZATION Early tetrapods had a...Ch. 27 - SYNTHESIZE YOUR KNOWLEDGE Collectively, do these...

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