The Position of Mammals in Evolution Is Best Described as

question 39

Multiple Choice

The position of mammals in evolution is best described as

• A)they dominate life in the sea.
• B)they were among the first animals to live on land and their diversity is greater than all living things known.
• C)they arose from mammal-like reptiles in the Jurassic but remained small and insignificant while dinosaurs dominated the land.
• D)mammals gave rise to birds.
• E)All of the choices are correct.

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Definitions:

Control Limits

Statistical boundaries set in process control charts that indicate the acceptable range of process performance and help identify moments of significant deviation or trend.

Standard Errors

Measures of the variability or spread of a sample statistic distribution if the experiment were to be repeated many times.

Control Limits

The boundaries in statistical process control that indicate the acceptable range of process variation.

Sample Mean

The average of a sample set of numbers, calculated as the sum of all the observed values divided by the number of observations.