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Chapter 13, Problem 9WIO
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To determine:
The term determining the evolutionary divergence of the plants (plants of Chile and San Francisco) that happened long before this seed-dispersal method arose in each plant and to explain the answer.
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The two types of plants present in the two different geographical locations that have the same seed-dispersing method. The plants have diverged from each other before the generation of the seed-dispersing method.
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Ch. 13.1 - What is the geologic timescale?Ch. 13.1 - What types of information provide the clues that...Ch. 13.2 - What are some of the ways that fossils form?Ch. 13.2 - Why will the fossil record always be incomplete?Ch. 13.2 - Distinguish between relative and absolute dating...Ch. 13.2 - How does radiometric dating work?Ch. 13.3 - How have the positions of Earths continents...Ch. 13.3 - How does biogeography provide evidence for...Ch. 13.4 - What can homologous structures reveal about...Ch. 13.4 - What is a vestigial structure? What are some...
Ch. 13.4 - What is convergent evolution?Ch. 13.5 - How does the study of embryonic development reveal...Ch. 13.5 - Prob. 2MCCh. 13.6 - How does analysis of DNA and proteins support...Ch. 13.6 - Prob. 2MCCh. 13.6 - How can molecular clocks help determine when two...Ch. 13.7 - How might the ability to crawl on land for short...Ch. 13.7 - Prob. 2MCCh. 13 - You discover that a 24,000-year-old fossil has one...Ch. 13 - In fossils found in deeper layers of the Earth,...Ch. 13 - Prob. 3MCQCh. 13 - Ground beetles (Carabus solieri) have useless hind...Ch. 13 - Prob. 5MCQCh. 13 - Prob. 6MCQCh. 13 - Prob. 7MCQCh. 13 - Explain the significance of the geologic timescale...Ch. 13 - Prob. 2WIOCh. 13 - Describe six types of fossils and how they form....Ch. 13 - The bubonic plague swept through western Europe in...Ch. 13 - Index fossils represent organisms that were...Ch. 13 - Prob. 6WIOCh. 13 - Prob. 7WIOCh. 13 - Why is it important for evolutionary biologists to...Ch. 13 - Prob. 9WIOCh. 13 - Prob. 10WIOCh. 13 - Prob. 11WIOCh. 13 - How do biologists use sequences of proteins and...Ch. 13 - Prob. 13WIOCh. 13 - Figure 13.25 Pull It Together: Evidence of...Ch. 13 - Prob. 2PITCh. 13 - Refer to figure 13.25 and the chapter content to...
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