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Comparative Anatomy
Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology
Vocabulary
Diversity and How New Species Form
100
The study of similarities and differences
What is comparative anatomy?
100
What is molecular biology?
What is the study of gene structre and function?
100
What provides evidence that certain species are related?
What is Embryos
100
The study of similarities and differences among structures of living species.
What is Comparative anatomy
100
Scientists are finding that _____ can be reorganized in simple ways.
Genes
200
What are two major concepts of comparative anatomy?
Homologous structures, and Analogous structures.
200
What do genes provide?
What is they provide powerful support for evolution.
200
________ of different species often resemble each other at different stages of their development.
Embryos
200
Body parts of organisms that are similar in structure and position but different in function.
What is Homologous structures
200
What level do scientists study now?
What is molecular
300
Homologus structures suggest that the forelimbs of these species are related?
What is humans, cats, frogs, bats, and birds(anyone of these)
300
What are two concepts of molecular biology?
What is Comparing Sequences and Divergence.
300
What do all vertebrate embryos have?
What is pharyngeal pouches
300
Body parts that perform a similar function but differ in structures.
What is Analogous structures
300
The basic principles of Darwin's theory hasn't changed for over ____ years
150
400
If two structures are similar to each other, the more likely it is that the species have ______ from a recent _______ ________.
What is evolved, common ancestor.
400
What do nearly all organisms contain?
What is They contain a gene that codes for cytochrome, a protein required for cellular respiration.
400
What is one function of gills?
What is to regulate calcium
400
Body parts that have lost their original function through evolution.
What is vestigial structures
400
What is difficult to study on human time scales?
What is origin
500
If there are differences in the structures of birds and flies they might not be ________ __________.
What is closely related.
500
What species have nearly identical cytochromes?
What is humans and rhesus monkeys.
500
In reptiles, birds, and humans, part of the _________ _________ develops into a gland in the neck that regulates calcium.
What is a pharyngeal pouch
500
The science of the development of embryos from fertilization to birth.
What is Embryology
500
New evidence supporting the theory of evolution by natural selection is discovered nearly every ___.
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