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A organism buried by wet sediment, chemicals in the water can leach into the small spaces within the organisms tissues
Mineralized Fossil
Scientist attempt to find out the ages of rocks by a process called
Dating
Preserved remains of plants and animals
Fossils
Only 250 of these birds still exist?
China's Blue-Crowned bird
The preservation of fine detail in a fossil requires?
Rapid burial
In England in the nineteenth-century most people believed that species do not change this is called?
Fixity of species
Large amount of fossils found in one area is called?
Fossil graveyard
The design or traits that are in animals/people that came before you?
Ancestors
Formed when a buried organism decays, leaving behind only a thin film of carbon.
Carbonized Fossil
This theory states that organisms could acquire new traits during their lifetime?
Theory of aquired characteristics
Suggest that all of Earth's physical processes, such as erosion and mountains building happen at the same rate in the present time as in the past.
Uniformitarianism
If you strip away fur, skin and muscles animals look similar. What does biologist call this?
homologous structures
Many fossils show evidence of death by
Drowning
Charles Lyell wrote a book titled?
Principles of Geology
The type of absolute dating that involves measuring isotopes in the fossils themselves is called?
Radiocarbon dating/Carbon 14 dating
Waterborne sediment
This is an example of loss of genetic information which also causes animals to less likely survive in the wild
Albinism
Evidence that an organism leaves behind that is not part of the organism.
Trace Fossil
This is likely the most well-known example of a living fossil.
Coelacanth (Fish)
Many scientist believe that blue heron birds evolved from dinosaurs this is called?
Evolution
Vestigial Structures
The blend of mutation and natural selection is often called
Modern Synthesis
The evidence states that organisms became extinct at a certain time. This is called?
The embryos of many vertebrate amimals resemble each other in early stages this is called?
Embryology
When changes occur within the structure of the DNA molecule
Mutation