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Suppose some natural disaster occurs and a species of finch is forced to relocate from its original island where it dined on cactus flowers to an adjacent island with many fewer cacti but an overabundance of orchids. What would be the immediate consequences to the species in the first month of the change?
A. the species would change its eating habits to feed on orchids.
B. all of the members of the species would make do with the existing cacti on their new island.
C. the entire species would go extinct.
D. most of the members of the species would die but some would survive.
Study the image of the fossil shown below. How might a scientist use this fossil to learn more about the history of life on Earth?
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A. to compare structures in the fossil with homologous structures in other vertebrates.
B. to look for vestigial structures in the fossil and compare them with functioning structures in living organisms.
C. to examine the fossil for evidence of the stages of embryological development of the animal to compare to development of living animals.
D. to determine the mineral content of the fossil and compare it with that of other fossils.
1) D looks the best to me
2) I'm deciding between A and B as well. If that's only-one-right-answer question, I'd go with A, because B says to compare vestigial structures in fossil and compare with functional structures in living organisms. However, it should be rather the other way, first (in the past) you have functional structure which loses its function during time and becomes vestigial. But that's only my guess. One can still find functional structures in nowadays animals homologous with vestigial structures from past organisms, I'd say.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
The first question, there's no way to tell between C and D - a month is enough time to starve all of the birds, and why would we be sure that ANY individuals could make the shift from cactus to orchid at any point in time?
There are two possible answers to the second one as well, since the "fossil" is an entire block of rock...
I agree; both C and D are possible for the first one and we can't exactly tell which one. However, there are some cacti on the new island from which the birds could try to survive. Perhaps some would survive from the cacti on the adjacent island.
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