Evidences of Evolution Vocabulary Quiz

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Distribution of plants and animals, can be left in the form of fossils or similarities between organisms on different continents.

• Embryology

• Vestigial Structure

• Biogeography

• Gradualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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Common ancestry determined by comparisons of molecules like cytochrome c, DNA, and RNA of different organisms.

• Punctuated Equilibrium

• Molecular Similarities

• Fossil Record

• Analogous Structures

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NGSS.HS-LS4-1

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Theory that evolution proceeds in small, gradual steps. Evidence favors this theory.

• Gradualism

• Vestigial Structures

• Punctuated Equilibrium

• Fossil Record

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Record of species, used to compare ancestors to current species. Helps determine patterns of evolution.

• Biogeography

• Molecular Similarities

• Homologous Structures

• Fossil Record

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NGSS.HS-LS4-1

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Reduced structures that are a form of a functional structures in other organisms. These structures are usually no longer needed.

• Homologous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Embryology

• Analogous Structure

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Anatomically similar structures inherited from a common ancestor. Structures have similar construction but different functions.

• Vestigial Structure

• Analogous Structure

• Homologous Structure

• Biogeography

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NGSS.HS-LS4-1

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Comparison of early, pre-birth stage of development, exhibits homologous structures during this time, but become different during adulthood.

• Embryology

• Fossil Record

• Punctuated Equilibrium

• Analogous Structure

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NGSS.HS-LS4-1

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Structures used for same purpose & superficially similar, but not inherited from a common ancestor.

• Homologous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Fossil Record

• Analogous Structure

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NGSS.HS-LS4-1

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Theory used to explain rapid spurs of change, with long periods of no change.

• Biogeography

• Gradualism

• Punctuated Equilibrium

• Embryology