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This is the author of the book, Your Inner Fish.
Who is Neil Shubin?
Ch. 1- This is the area where the transitional organism was discovered by the author and his team.
What is Ellesmere Island (or the Arctic, or Canada)?
Ch. 1- This is the name of the transitional organism that the author helped discover.
What is the Tiktaalik?
Ch. 4- This is the name of the outer layer of teeth that makes them so hard.
What is enamel?
Ch. 3- These are the rhyming words that describe the experiments on embryos that involved careful microsurgery (cutting).
What is slice and dice?
Ch. 11- This is the number of years Charles Osborne dealt with hiccups.
What is 68 years?
Ch. 6- This is the California university where Eddie De Robert's laboratory is located. He brought back the Organizer while looking for the Hox gene in frogs.
What is UCLA?
Ch. 2- This is the organism discovered in South America, having fins, scales, and lungs.
What is the lungfish?
Ch. 10- This is the part of the ear that helps with balance and has tubes that look like snail shells.
What is the inner ear?
Ch. 3- This is the name of a Sega Genesis hero and also a gene that affects limb and digit development.
What is the Sonic Hedgehog?
Ch. 8- Discovered by Linda Buck and Richard Axel, this is the percentage of our genome dedicated to genes that detect different odors.
What is 3%?
Ch. 2- This is the state where the author and his colleague found a good fossil-hunting ground in the piles of boulders the state DOT left after they dynamited the area.
What is Pennsylvania?
Ch. 3- This organism's "bones" are actually made of cartilage, making it a cartilaginous fish.
What is a shark (or a skate)?
Ch. 4- This is the fit between the upper and lower teeth, which reptiles lack.
What is precise occlusion?
Ch. 5- This is the number of arches that every animal shares while in development.
What is 4?
Ch. 6- This is the first name of the scientist who discovered that every animal organ was derived from 3 germ layers. (? Ernst von Baer)
Who is Karl?
Ch. 5- This is the Canadian province where the author and his colleagues found the jawbone of a tritheledont.
What is Nova Scotia?
Ch. 4- Often called "Vampire Fish", these primitive jawless fish helped understand what conodonts were.
What are lampreys?
Ch. 2- This is the body part that Sir Charles Bell, a Scottish surgeon, wrote about.
What are hands?
Ch. 6- This is the name of the type of pregnancy for when a blastocyst implants in the wrong place, most often in the fallopian tubes.
Ch. 11- This is the name of the scientist who came up with the "Thrifty Genotype".
Who is James Neel?
Ch. 10- This is one of the two countries where, starting in the 1840s, new dog-sized, "mammal-like reptile" fossils were being discovered.
What is Russia or South Africa?
Ch. 8- These two organisms, which live in the ocean, have no functional odor genes.
What are whales and dolphins?
Ch. 10- These are the names of our three middle ear bones.
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
Ch. 6- These are the names of the 3 germ layers.
What are the endoderm, ectoderm, and mesoderm?