Respond to the Following Statements with Reference to the Five

question 21

Multiple Choice

Respond to the following statements with reference to the five trophic categories listed below.
-A bear eating blueberries is functioning as this.

• A)Producer
• B)Primary consumer
• C)Secondary consumer
• D)Tertiary consumer
• E)Decomposer

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Definitions:

Lamarck

Refers to Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, an early 19th-century scientist known for his theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Evolution

The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

Cladogram

A diagram that depicts the evolutionary relationships among groups of organisms based on shared characteristics derived from a common ancestor.

Shared Derived Trait

A characteristic that is present in an ancestral species and is shared exclusively by its evolutionary descendants.