READINESS QUIZ 1 / QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
2023/2024
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, 1. This book seeks to help us understand a narrative of evolution through:
A. comparative morphology
B. genetics
C. all of these
D. embryology: C. all of these
2. In the first 24 hours after fertilization, what has happened to your embryonicself?
A. you are a hollow, spherical blastocyst
B. the fertilized egg has implanted in the uterus
C. you are a "jam sandwich" of mesoderm between your ectoderm and endo-derm
D. mitosis has occurred once creating your first two cells: D. mitosis hasoccurred once
creating your first two cells
3. Once it is penetrated by a sperm cell, the zona pellucida does what?
A. dissolves away
B. destroys the sperm cell
C. hardens due to chemical signals
D. begins to divide: C. hardens due to chemical signals
4. A theory of development that sees embryonic growth as a condensed andsped up version of
evolution.
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AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
2023/2024
.
1/2
, 1. This book seeks to help us understand a narrative of evolution through:
A. comparative morphology
B. genetics
C. all of these
D. embryology: C. all of these
2. In the first 24 hours after fertilization, what has happened to your embryonicself?
A. you are a hollow, spherical blastocyst
B. the fertilized egg has implanted in the uterus
C. you are a "jam sandwich" of mesoderm between your ectoderm and endo-derm
D. mitosis has occurred once creating your first two cells: D. mitosis hasoccurred once
creating your first two cells
3. Once it is penetrated by a sperm cell, the zona pellucida does what?
A. dissolves away
B. destroys the sperm cell
C. hardens due to chemical signals
D. begins to divide: C. hardens due to chemical signals
4. A theory of development that sees embryonic growth as a condensed andsped up version of
evolution.
2/2
