Evidence of Evolution

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What organism shares the most genetic material with humans?

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Chimpanzee

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What is the study of the distribution of plants and animals around the world?

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Biogeography

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What term describes when two very different groups of animals evolve to do the same thing?

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Homoplasy

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What are structures that are reduced forms of functional structures in different species, such as the appendix in a human?

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Vestigial structures

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What provides a record of species that lived long ago, supplying significant evidence of evolutionary change?

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Fossils

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What is the term for similar structures in different species that arise from a common ancestor?

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Homologous structures

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What is the process by which species change over time through natural selection?

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Evolution

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What is the term for traits that are similar due to convergent evolution, not common ancestry?

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Analogous structures

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What is the evidence called that supports the theory of evolution through the study of embryonic development?

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Embryology

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What is the term for the genetic material that is passed from parents to offspring?

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DNA