Three of the Following Statements Are Examples of Possible Advance

question 15

Multiple Choice

Three of the following statements are examples of possible advance organizers for a geometry lesson. Which statement is not an advance organizer as the term is typically defined?

• A) "Today we will be studying three different kinds of triangles: acute, right, and obtuse."
• B) "Okay, class, it's time to put your reading assignment away so that we can begin today's geometry lesson."
• C) "Calculating the volume of a sphere is similar to a procedure you learned last month-calculating the area of a circle."
• D) "Do you know how many square feet you have in your bedroom? After learning how to calculate the area of a rectangle today, you will know how to figure out exactly how big your bedroom is."

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Definitions:

Amino Acids

Organic compounds serving as the building blocks of proteins, crucial for life and involved in various metabolic processes.

Orthologs

Genes in different species that evolved from a common ancestral gene by speciation and retain the same function in the course of evolution.

Homoplasy

Homoplasy refers to a phenomenon in evolutionary biology where similar traits or structures arise independently in different lineages, not due to common ancestry.

Molecular Phylogenies

The use of molecular data to construct evolutionary trees that represent the relationships among different species or organisms.