Overall,how Do the Effects of the Major Mass Extinctions Compare

question 59

Multiple Choice

Overall,how do the effects of the major mass extinctions compare?

• A)Large terrestrial animals were always decimated while aquatic species survived
• B)Species that required light were always decimated because all extinctions were due to asteroid bombardment resulting in blackened sky
• C)Species appear to genetically "wear out" and mass extinctions "re-set" the evolutionary mechanisms
• D)Not all cataclysmic events were the same and organismal groups and phenotypes were different in each extinction;however lineages favored by effect macroevolution and species selection were more vulnerable
• E)There has not been any detected pattern to extinctions and they are probably random

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