Chapter 3: Major Groups of Living Organisms

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1. When the Encyclopedia of Life was introduced, how many pages did it contain?

a) 500
b) 10,000
c) 30,000
d) 1.77 million

2. Exemplar pages from the first published edition included

a) Yellow fever mosquito
b) Eastern white pine
c) Death cap (mushroom)
d) All of the above

3. Who spearheaded the project?

a) Jody Hey
b) Edward O. Wilson
c) Quentin D. Wheeler
d) James Edwards

4. How might this project help reinforce the shrinking field of taxonomists, the scientists who describe species and revise old descriptions.

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