anatomical structures that occur in different species and that originated by hereditary from a structure in the most recent common ancestor of the species.
What is homologous structures?
100
remains/traces of an organism that died long ago
What is fossil?
100
material that contains the information that determines inherited characteristics
What is DNA?
200
states all living things came from other living things
What is biogenesis?
200
he designed an experiment to test the hypothesis of spontaneous generation of microorganisms
What is Lazzaro Spallanzani ?
200
serve no function but resembles structures with functional roles in related organisms
What is vestigial structure?
200
(rock layers) formed as new layers of rock are deposited over time
What is strata?
200
natural polymer that is present in all living cells and plays a part in protein
What is RNA?
300
closely related functions but don't come from same ancestral structure
What is analogous structures?
300
his experiment supported the principle of biogenesis
What is Louis Pasteur ?
300
development of animal embryos is also evidence of...
What is "decent with modification" ?
300
states if rock strata at a location have not been disturbed
What is superposition?
300
study of locations of organisms around the world
What is biogeography?
400
relationships by ancestry among groups of organisms
What is phylogeny?
400
supported the idea that populations of organisms change over time
What is Jean Baptiste Lamarck ?
400
birds,bats, and moths have wings, but they're different. this is an example of...
What is analogous structure?
400
process in which different species evolve similar traits
What is convergent evolution?
400
evolutionary pattern in which many species evolve from single ancestral species
What is adaptive radiation ?
500
serve no functions but resembles structures with functional roles in related organisms
What is vestigial structures
500
he and Darwin formed a theory to explain how evolution took place
What is Alfred Russel Wallace?
500
study of relationships by ancestry among groups of organisms
What is phylogeny?
500
the timeline for the order in which different groups of rocks and fossils were formed
What is Geologic Time Scale?
500
process in which descendants of a single ancestor diversify into species that each fit different parts of enviornment.