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What year was the term Dinosauria coined - ANSWER-1842 Who coined the term Dinosauria - ANSWER-Richard Owen What does the term dinosauria mean - ANSWER-terrible lizard where did dinosaurs live - ANSWER-all 7 continents what years did dinosaurs live - ANSWER-225-66 million years ago what periods did dinosaurs live in - ANSWER-late triassic, all of the jurrasic and cretatious What era did the dinosaurs live in? - ANSWER-Mesozoic Era What is the source of earth's hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas) - ANSWER-microscopic algae that has been decomposed beneath the earths surface What do paleontologists study? - ANSWER-fossils What is phylogeny? - ANSWER-the history of how a group of organisms is evolved what drives evolution - ANSWER-environment Darwinism main ideas are - ANSWER-natural selection, decent with modification a clade is - ANSWER-a branch or cluster of branches with a common stem on a phylogeny a grade is - ANSWER-a set of clades that do not have a close common ancestor, horizontal slice through a phylogeny Malthus Limited resource theory - ANSWER-influenced Darwin to come to the natural selection theory
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