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What is the name of the transitional fossil between fish and tetrapods, discovered in Canada in 2004?
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Tiktaalik
Which group of mammals gives birth to underdeveloped young that complete development in a pouch?
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marsupials
Which mass extinction event is known as the 'Great Dying' and occurred about 252 million years ago?
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Permian-Triassic extinction
What term describes structures in different species that are similar due to common ancestry?
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homologous structures
What is the name of the first known bird, which lived during the Jurassic period?
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Archaeopteryx
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Which mass extinction event is known as the 'Great Dying' and occurred about 252 million years ago?
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Permian-Triassic extinction
What term describes structures in different species that are similar due to common ancestry?
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homologous structures
What is the name of the first known bird, which lived during the Jurassic period?
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Archaeopteryx
Which scientist proposed natural selection independently of Charles Darwin?
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Which dinosaur was the first to be scientifically named, in 1824?
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Megalosaurus
What term describes the transfer of genetic material between different species, common in bacteria?
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Horizontal gene transfer