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Alex, a star basketball player on her high school team, fractured her ankle just before playoffs.  After a crucial playoff loss a week later – which Alex watched from the bench – she thought, “If I hadn’t gotten injured, we would have made it to the championship.  This is all my fault.”  Which cognitive distortion is Alex exhibiting? 

True or False. Homologous traits are a result of convergent evolution. _________ Explain your answer. 

List the 5 mechanisms of evolution. 

What information can fossils add to phylogenies that cannot be obtained from living organisms?

You know that the half-life of Carbon-14 is 5730 years. You are studying a sample of animal bone, and you find that 25% of the expected amount of Carbon-14 is remaining in your sample. About how old is this sample? Write out your thought process. (4 pts)

In the Closest Pair of Points problem, what is the time complexity of the brute-force approach?

Which of the following best characterizes General Oliver Howard, the head of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

How is the Port Royal experiment in land distribution an example of the failures ofReconstruction?

Which of the following best characterizes the response of southern white people to the efforts of former slaves to acquire an education?

Former slaves soon discovered that the acquisition of land depended on __________.