Darwin Evidence

The number and location of bones of many fossil vertebrates are similar to those in living vertebrates. This is evidence in support of which of the following concepts?

• Lamarck's tendency towards perfection

• common descent

• analogous structures

• the inheritance of acquired traits.

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organs or skeletal elements of animals and organisms that, by virtue of their similarity, suggest their connection to a common ancestor. These structures do not have to look exactly the same, or have the same function.

• Analogous Structure

• Homologous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Molecular Homology

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Similar DNA sequence between different organisms indicating a common ancestry or evolutionary origin.

• morphology

• Embryology

• Molecular Homology

• Adaptation

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Father of Evolution, wrote origins of species and studied organisms from Galapagos to support his proposal that natural selection occurs.

• Hooke

• Darwin

• Lamarck

• Markiewicz

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A change in a species over time is

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Diversity

• Morphology

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Survival of the fittest. The organism that is best able to survive and passes on its genes in the gene pool.

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Law of Superposition

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Similar embryological development in different organisms indicating a common ancestry or evolutionary origin.

• Molecular Homology

• Morphology

• Adaptation

• Embryology

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Serves no useful purpose in the modern organism but did in its ancestral form.

• Analogous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Homologous Structure

• Adaptation

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Which evidence show patterns of change in organisms from early life to modern life?

• homologous structures

• transitional fossils

• vestigial structures

• proteins

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The picture shows a/an ___________

• homologous structure

• vestigial structure

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