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ENVS 105 Question Set Section #1 Fall 2014
Answer the following questions for your homework. Work on the questions after we have covered the topic in class. Bring any questions to class or office hours. These questions will help you on the exam. If you do not do them, the points will add up and hurt your grade.

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1) Based on the graphic above, which two of the animals listed on the top line would be most closely related to each other?Grizzly Bear and Black Bear

2) Based on the graphic above, which two of the animals listed on the top line would be most similar to each other genetically?
Cervus elaphus and rangifer tarandus

Common Name:
Nine-Banded Armadillo
Translation:
Kingdom:
Animalia
Animals: Multicellular, heterotrophic, eukaryotic organisms.
Phylum:
Chordata
Chordates: animals with a notochord.
Class:
Mammalia
Mammals: animals that have hair and give milk to their young.
Order:
Cingulata
Cingulata: Pampatheres (extinct), glyptodonts (extinct) and armadillos.
Family:
Dasipodidae
From Dasypodis, Greek for “turtle-rabbit”; Linnaeus did not like the Aztec name, Azotochtli, and so used a Greek equivalent to name the family.
Genus:
Dasypus
Dasypus is derived from the same Greek root as the family name.
Species:
Novemcintus
Novem: nine; -cinctus: band. Nine-banded.

3) Go to http://eol.org/pages/328482/overview and on the right side click on the link “see all” right of “Classification”. Find the IUCN Red List classification and click on “view in classification”. Using that information, fill in the column listed nine-banded armadillo in the table above.

4) Read the article Zimmer, Carl. 2008. What Is a Species? Scientific American. June. And answer the following questions.
a) What do many

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