Multiple Choice
Systematists aided in the effort to eradicate malaria from Europe by ____.
A) developing insecticides to kill mosquitoes
B) categorizing mosquitoes into six species
C) discovering that all mosquitoes breed in standing water
D) cloning the genes of the malaria pathogen
E) identifying Plasmodium as the parasite that causes malaria
Correct Answer:
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Correct Answer:
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Q2: Linear chromosome structure is a character unique
Q3: Similarity in any type of biological trait
Q4: Characters that provide evidence for evolutionary relationships
Q5: An ancestral _ gave rise to animals
Q7: Phenotypic similarity that evolved independently in different
Q8: Describe why many systematists adopt the principle
Q9: A diagram that hypothesizes the evolutionary relationships
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