Imagine That You Are Looking at the Tree of Life

question 1

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you are looking at the tree of life. The majority of branches on this diagram would represent which of the following types of organisms?

• A)mammals
• B)microbes
• C)viruses
• D)plants
• E)humans

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Definitions:

Skewed Right

A distribution of data where the right tail (larger values) is longer than the left tail, indicating that the majority of data points are located on the left side.

Symmetric Histogram

A graphical representation of the distribution of data where the left and right sides of the histogram are mirror images of each other.

Relative Frequency Distribution

A representation that shows the proportion or percentage of observations within a dataset that fall within particular intervals or categories.

Relative Frequency Histogram

A type of histogram that displays the proportion or percentage of observations within various categories or intervals.