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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Possible Worlds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the class of Burgess arthropods?
(a) Cansteromoids.
(b) Istoperoids.
(c) Momomoids.
(d) Merostomoids.

2. What does the evolution of life contain, according to Gould's explanations and illustrations?
(a) "Annihilation and acceptance."
(b) "Decimation and diversification."
(c) "Agreement and speculation."
(d) "Reconstruction and growth."

3. What did Marrella and Yohoia still appear to be?
(a) Crustaceans.
(b) Unknown creatures.
(c) Vertebrates.
(d) Arthropods.

4. What was Whittington armed with that helped him review the claim that Opabinia was an arthropod?
(a) New tossils.
(b) New fossils.
(c) Old instructional manuals.
(d) New techniques.

5. What is the sixth major contingency?
(a) Mammal decimation.
(b) Arthropod flourishing.
(c) Mammal flourishing.
(d) Crustacean decimation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?

2. Which old category did the team focus on to classify Opabinia?

3. How can scientists describe the structure of evolutionary inference?

4. What kind of similarities and differences must scientists attend to?

5. What is the name of the small ribbon-shaped creation that is the first member known of the 'chordate' phylum?

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