Structures
Cladograms
DNA
What does it mean?
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
Structures, found in human arms, bat wings, and dolphin flippers, provide evidence of a common ancestor.
What are homologous structures?
100
This is what a cladogram tells us.
What is how closely organism are related to each other?
100
Organisms that only have a small number of DNA differences.
What is closely related?
100
Several sets of dinosaur tracks going in the same direction.
What is a herd of dinosaurs migrating?
100
This scientific theory explains how all living organisms are related through descent from a common ancestor.
What is the theory of evolution?
200
Structures, such as the wings of birds and butterflies, that have a similar function but do not share a common ancestry.
What are analogous structures?
200
The organism that is most closely related to the porpoise. (Dolphin, Orca or Beluga whale)
What is the Beluga whale?
200
A larger number of DNA differences would mean this.
What is more distantly related?
200
What is these organisms had a common ancestor?
200
Preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms provide evidence for common ancestry.
What are fossils?
300
These are structures that no longer have a use, but are left over from an evolutionary ancestor.
What are vestigial structures?
300
The feature humans, hares, caimans, and parrots share that the other three lineages did not inherit?
What is amniotic egg?
300
According to this DNA chart, the closest relative to the Peccary.
What is the pig?
300
What is evidence that dinosaurs were fighting when they died.
300
Fossils that show characteristics in between different groups of organisms and provide evidence for common ancestry.
What are transitional or intermediate fossils/forms?
400
The picture shows evidence of this.
What is common ancestry?
400
The crocodile is more closely related to the frog than the monkey.
What is false?
400
Of these animals, the species that it LEAST closely related to the deer.
What is the peccary?
400
Explain the law of superposition.
In undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are found at the bottom, and the youngest rocks are found at the top.
400
This is the difference between relative dating and absolute dating of fossils?
What is relative dating determines the relative order of events or objects in geologic time, while absolute dating determines the precise age of a geological sample in years.
500
What the missing organism would look like.
Answers may very, but something like this:
500
The trait that Pokemons have if they have a tail, but not fire.
What is a shell?
500
The number of base pairs in the human genome.
What is 3 billion?
500
What is trilobites curling up for protection?
500
The group of primates that includes humans, gorillas, and chimpanzees.
What are hominids?