CHROMOSOME CONNECTION ACTIVITY PACKET
SELF-CHECK QUESTIONS: Based on your reading of the Background Information, check your
understanding at this point by answering the following questions:
1. If two different species have extensive identical chromosome banding patterns, they...
A must be related
B) are probably related
C) could be related, but not necessarily so
D) are probably not related
E) may or may not be related...no basis for judging this
2. If you found that two sets of chromosomes (one from species "X" and one from species "Y") showed a very
close match (in the number of chromosomes and many identical banding patterns), it would be most
reasonable to say that...
A) one species evolved from the other
B) both species evolved from a common ancestor relatively recently
C) both species may be distantly related
D) their chromosome similarities are only a striking coincidence