Gorillas seem to have diverged first, about _____ Ma.

• A) 13
• B) 12
• C) 10
• D) 11

First dinosaurs were bipedal _______.

• A) omnivores
• B) detritivores
• C) decomposers
• D) carnivores

The skeleton of Archaeopteryx is very like that of ________.

• A) Dinosaurs
• B) Deinonychus
• C) Icthysaurs
• D) Plesiosaurs

Processes are _____ that seek to explain the patterns.

• A) hypotheses
• B) theory
• C) observation
• D) law

Prokaryotes lack a ____ and have (usually) a single circular chromosome.

• A) none
• B) cytoplasm
• C) cytosol
• D) nucleus

Marsupials, and Placentals, radiated dramatically in the _______.

• A) Triassic
• B) Miocene
• C) Jurassic
• D) Tertiary

Archaeopteryx is ............ fossil of ancient dinosaurs.

• A) Reptiles like
• B) Bird Like
• C) Mammal like
• D) Amphibians like

According to exponential model, _______ limitations slow the rate of increase of life.

• A) time
• B) both a and b
• C) Food
• D) Space

Sets of discrete footprints, usually formed by _____.

• A) arthropods
• B) birds
• C) amphibians
• D) reptiles

A classic example of an adaptive radiation due to development of teeth _____.

• A) Placentals
• B) Both a and b
• C) Marsupials
• D) Monotremes

Brain size of H. eractus is about ____ cm3 in a body up to 1.6 m tall.

• A) 830-1200
• B) 930-1100
• C) 730-1100
• D) 830–1100

The substantial skeletons, of Praeanthropus afarensis, ___ Ma old.

• A) 3.2
• B) 3.4
• C) 3.3
• D) 3.5

Primitive forms have ______ clades.

• A) 2
• B) 4
• C) 5
• D) 3

________ females lay eggs, and newborn young grow in pouch.

• A) METATHERIA
• B) MONOTREMATA
• C) EUTHERIA
• D) none

The first tree sized plants appeared in Late _______ period.

• A) Devonian
• B) Ordovician
• C) Silurian
• D) Cambrian

The extraordinary diversity of tetrapod predators in the sea came to an end

• A) 45 Ma
• B) 65 Ma
• C) 55 Ma
• D) 75 Ma

Classification of trace fossils is based upon _____.

• A) all
• B) dwelling
• C) feeding
• D) farming

______ restricted to Australasia.

• A) pouched
• B) monotremes
• C) placentals
• D) marsupials

A larger brain means higher intelligence and so greater evolutionary adaptability is an _____.

• A) theory
• B) hypothesis
• C) assumption
• D) observation

______ concentrates on macroscopic (visible with the naked eye) plant remains.

• A) Paleobotany
• B) Palynology
• C) both a and b
• D) none