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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which process forms fossils?variationadaptationmineralization
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The sudden disappearance of a type of fossil in the fossil record is evidence of what?extinctioncamouflagecarbonization
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Homogous body parts do NOT always have similar what?locationsfunctionsstructures
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Patterns in the fossil record show that species on Earth do what?change over timeadapt to all environmental changesappear on Earth independence of existing species
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What determines how closely related two species are?how much they compete for foodhow closely they live to one anotherhow recently they shared a common ancestor
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Studying relationships between organisms by comparing their structures is called what?molecular biologycomparative anatomyembryology
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Studying relationships between organisms by comparing their embryos is called what?molecular biologycomparative anatomyembryology
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Studying relationships between organisms by comparing their genes and proteins is called what?molecular biologycomparative anatomyembryology
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Camouflage and mimicry are what type of adaptation?structuralbehavioralfunctional
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.A helpful variation can lead to what?adaptationextinction
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.An adaptation can be classified asstructural, behavioral or functionalgood, bad or uglybig, little or medium
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Two ways scientists can find the age of a fossil arerelative age dating and absolute age datingdigging and uncoveringdrawing and guessing
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Scientists use molecular biology (studying genes) to determine that DNA mutates at predictable rates. They use this ____________ __________ to estimate at what time in the past living species diverged from common ancestors.molecular clockfossil rockDNA block
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What two observations helped Charles Darwin in his development of the theory of evolution by natural selection?variation and adaptationturtles and rabbitsancestors and environments
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What type of organisms form fossil casts?organisms with shellsplantsinsects
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What type of organisms form carbon films?organisms with shellsfish, insects and plant leaves