Josie was home all alone. She heard someone banging up against her front door and told the person to go away or she would call the police. As she was calling the police, the door began to crack from the doorframe. Josie grabbed her dad's hunting rifle and shot in the direction of the noise. She heard a loud bellow, and then all was quiet. The police arrived and found the perpetrator down the road, bleeding from his shin. Josie is guilty of . involuntary manslaughter

battery

no crime

attempted murder with intent to kill

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The phylogenetic tree illustrates the relationship between humans and our closest living relatives. the tree was based on biochemical comparisons, including dna and amino acid sequences. according to the biomolecular data, we could infer that a) the four organisms do not have a common ancestor. b) humans are more closely related to chimps than any other apes. c) chimps are more closely related to gorillas than they are to humans. eliminate d) there is no evidence if any relationship between the four branches on the tree.

Cladistics is a way of classifying organisms by examining the characteristics of their ancestors and descendants and depicting the relationships in a cladogram. which of the following best describes a challenge in classifying organisms this way? a. there are millions of species on earth, and a cladogram is not a practical means for classifying all of them. b. it is impossible to tell which organisms are most closely related to each other using a cladogram. c. cladograms are detail-oriented and do not provide a useful understanding of evolutionary relationships. d. there is a limited number of ways to organize the information, so most cladograms end up looking very similar.