#Question id: 4595
#Section 2: Evolution
Currently, two extant elephant species (X and Y) are classified in the genus Loxodonta, and a third species (Z) is placed in the genus Elephas. Thus, which statement should be true?
#Question id: 9150
#Section 2: Evolution
For mountain ranges that are subjected to prevailing winds, why is the climate drier on the leeward (downwind) side?
#Question id: 3479
#Section 2: Evolution
Which of the following could be classified as habituation?
A) You enter a room and hear a fan motor. After a period of time, you are no longer aware of the motorʹs noise.
B) You hear a horn while driving your car. You step on the brakes but notice the sound came from a side street. You resume your previous speed.
C) One morning you awake to a beep-beep-beep from a garbage truck working on a new early morning schedule. The next week the garbage truck arrives at the same time and makes the same noise, but does not wake you up.
#Question id: 4598
#Section 2: Evolution
Fossils of Thrinaxodon, a species that lived during the Triassic period, have been found in both South Africa and Antarctica. Thrinaxodon had a reptile-like skeleton and laid eggs, but small depressions on the front of its skull suggest it had whiskers and, therefore, fur. Thrinaxodon may have been warm-blooded. The fossils of Thrinaxodon are consistent with the hypothesis that ________.
#Question id: 11403
#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution
Several categories of risk of species extinction have been defined. A species can be determined as critical endangered if there is considered to be