History of Life Vocabulary

A preserved remnant or impression of an organism that lived in the past.

• Hox Genes

• Common Ancestor

• Fossil

• Stasis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

similar body structures among different species from a common ancestor

• Biogeography

• Vestigial Structure

• Anatomical Homology

• Developmental Homolgy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

An ancestral species from which later species evolved

• Common Ancestor

• Homology

• Developmental Homolgy

• Molecular Homology

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

remnant of a structure that may have had an important function in a species' ancestors, but has no clear function in the modern species.

• Developmental Homolgy

• Molecular Homology

• Vestigial Structure

• Hox Genes

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

the periods of time in the fossil record that show limited change

• Common ancestor

• Hox Genes

• Anatomical Homology

• Stasis

Study of past and present distribution of organisms

• Common Ancestor

• Biogeography

• Hox Genes

• Stasis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

series of genes that controls the differentiation of cells and tissues in an embryo

• Hox Genes

• Common Ancestor

• Biogeography

• Molecular Homology

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Similarity in characteristics resulting from a shared ancestry.

• Common Ancestor

• Stasis

• Homology

• Fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

similar DNA (amino acid sequences) among different species from a common ancestor

• Hox Genes

• Developmental Homology

• Molecular Homology

• Common Ancestor

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

Species that differ as adults often bear striking similarities during embryonic stages

• Developmental Homology

• Common Ancestor

• Molecular Homology

• Stasis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-3