Developmental Biology Exam 1 Name________________ This exam is a “take home exam,” and you may use any materials you wish. You may study with your peers, but you are not allowed to work with any other individual on the specific questions of these exams. Your submitted response must be your own original work. Solicitation from the Emergency International Science Fund: “The germ cell origin of life to save the rain forest (and us).” The recent increase in deforestation of the Amazon rain forest has raised awareness to its impact on global warming as well as to the declining diversification of species on this planet (Figure 1). There is significant concern that even aquatic species of the Amazon River will be severely impacted. In an effort to raise global awareness to these problems, several expeditions to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil have sought to discover new species in the hopes to educate and convince world leaders that this is an essential treasure requiring protection—both to combat global warming and potentially identify new medicinal therapies.