Biology Vocab Check 7.2

Front

Preserved remains of living organisms

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fossils

Front

Study of organism distribution

Back

biogeography

Front

Organism in earliest development stage

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embryo

Front

Similarity from common ancestry

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homology

Front

Forming a small remnant of something once larger.

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Vestigial

Front

Body parts with a common function but different structure

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analogous structure

Front

no longer in existence

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extinct

Front

Evidence from DNA sequence changes

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Molecular evidence

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Shared ancestor of new species from one population

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common ancestor

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Unrelated organisms evolve similarities in similar environments

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convergent evolution