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Evidence of Evolution

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  • are newly evolved features, such as feathers, that do not appear in the fossils of common ancestors
    Derived traits
  • is a measure of the relative contribution that an individual trait makes to the next generation
    Fitness
  • Anatomical structures inherited from a common ancestor
    Homologous structures
  • is the study of how plants and animals are distributed on Earth
    Biogeography
  • The image shows an example of
    Camouflage
  • reduced form of a structure that is functional in other organisms
    Vestigial structures
  • different skeletal structure , same uses , different ancestor
    Analogous structures
  • ( T / F ) The cytochrome c in the pig and in the monkey share more amino acid sequences with humans than the cytochrome c in the duck shares with humans
    T
  • is an early, prebirth stage of an organism’s development.
    Embryo
  • one species evolves to resemble another species.
    Mimicry
  • Darwin lies the idea that natural selection leads to ...........................
    adaptation
  • spandrels example are considered as an example of
    consequence of adaption
  • Organisms with closely related morphological features have more closely related ................... features
    molecular
  • states that all organisms on Earth descend with modifications from their ancestors
    The theory of evolution
  • ( T / F ) Changes in the environment could lead to mutation
    True
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    Analogous structures