Question 9

(Multiple Choice)

You are looking at the side of a cliff with many clearly visible layers of rock. In the top layer you find the fossil of a mouse. In the next layer down you find the fossil of a frog. Two layers down from that you find the fossil of a beetle, and in the deepest layer the fossil of a millipede. This is evidence that


A)mice evolved before frogs.
B)frogs evolved after mice.
C)millipedes were the first among these animals to evolve.
D)the beetle evolved before millipedes.

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