You Are Looking at the Side of a Cliff with Many

question 91

Multiple Choice

You are looking at the side of a cliff with many clearly visible layers of rock.In the top layer,you find the fossil of a mouse.In the next layer down,you find the fossil of a frog.Two layers down from that,you find the fossil of a beetle and,in the deepest layer,the fossil of a millipede.This is evidence that _____________.

• A) mice evolved before frogs
• B) frogs evolved after mice
• C) millipedes were the first among these animals to evolve
• D) the beetle evolved before millipedes

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