What is a lobster, horseshoe crab, spider, butterfly, scorpion, centipede, millipede, ant, bee, etc.
100
Wrote a book about the Burgess Shale and the interesting organisms therein.
Who is Stephen Jay Gould?
100
Although Gould does not seem to agree with it, this is Darwin's theory explaining why some organisms survive while others die off
What is "survival of the fittest"?
100
In Act 1 of Gould's Burgess Drama, Whittington struggled to classify these organisms (name one)
What are Marrella and Yohoia?
100
A system through which organisms are categorized and described.
What is taxonomy?
200
This organism was discovered by Collins when exploring the area near the Burgess Shale and was the first chelicerate to be discovered in the Burgess fauna.
What is "Santa claws" or Sancactaris
200
He classified Naraoia as a new form of trilobite that lacked a thorax
Who is Whittington?
200
Filling of the ecological barrel, genetic material becoming less forgiving of restructuring, and early diversification, are all possible explanations for this.
What is the origin of the Burgess Fauna?
200
In Act 2, this species sparked the creation of a new phylum
What is Opabinia?
200
The term for the plates and spines found on Wiwaxia.
What are sclerites?
300
This organism was nicknamed "odd shrimp"
What is anomalocaris?
300
Both of these men disagree with Whittington's decision not to place Aysheaia in the Onychophora group
Who are Walcott and Stephen Jay Gould?
300
Out of the 25 body plans that Whittington and his colleagues constructed, this number of them led to successful groups that are still dominant in our world today.
What is "four"?
300
In Act 3 this species was described as having seven struts and standing on the sea floor
What is Hallucigenia?
300
A term for the hard shell of an organism, like a crustacean or Naraoia.
What is a carapace?
400
Name three of the organisms discussed in Whittington's "Rare Arthropods from the Burgess Shale"
What is: Sidneyia, Odaraia, Molaria, Habelia, Sarotrocercus, Actaeus, Alalcomenaeus, Emeraldella, and Leanchoilia
400
Was refused access to Walcott's quarry and searched on his own for nearby Burgess organisms
Who is Des Collins?
400
Gould says that this process decided which of the Burgess fauna stuck around
What is the lottery system
400
In Act 4, Whittington elected to change the classification of this species, originally classified by Hutchinson
What is Aysheaia?
400
This is the term for a type of mouth shared by mollusks.
What is the radula?
500
This organism is characterized by its large number of schlerites.
What is the wiwaxia?
500
Believed that Anomalocaris was part of a much larger organism (almost 3 feet long)
Who is Derek Briggs?
500
Gould relates the Burgess fauna to this shape
(Remember: it has a maximal scope at start, then is left with a much smaller number of species)
What is an inverted cone
500
In Act 5, this type of organ was called an Anomalocaris
What is a feeding organ?
500
As opposed to "homology," this term represents the other means through which species may INDEPENDENTLY achieve evolutionary similarity to one another (i.e.: wings).