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The picture shown is an example of
Vestigial structures
Homologous structures
Analogous structures
Fossils
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Which process of evolution is demonstrated below?
Comparative anatomy
Homologous structures
Comparative embryology
Vestigial structures
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Which evidence for evolution is shown below?
Comparative embryology
Homologous structures
Biochemical evidence
Vestigial structures
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The bones in the figure above are-
Evidence of a common ancestor
Evidence that animals can walk
Evidence that fossils are old
Evidence of nothing
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What conclusion can you draw from the fact that many modern whale species have vestigial pelvic and leg bones?
The ancestors of whales may have been land mammals
Whales could walk if they wanted to
Whales are preparing to evolve into land animals
Someday whales will be able to walk and will have legs
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The picture shows similarities among the forelimbs of three animals. The similarities provide evidence for which of the following hypotheses?
Legs and wings may have evolved from flippers.
All mammals have evolved from an ancestor that was a bat.
A cat’s leg, a whales’sflipper, and a bat’s wing have identical functions
Cats, whales, and bats had the same ancestor millions of years ago.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is the study of organisms at the early stages of development?DNA studiesembryologyextinctionfossil record
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which layer is the oldest?1234
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The similarities of organisms in which two areas numbered in the picture provide the best evidence for common ancestry?1 and 23 and 45 and 67 and 8
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Structures that are similar but their function may be different.
Homologous
Analogous
Vestigial
DNA
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______________ structures are similar in function but not in structure
Vestigial
Homologous
Analogous
Embryonic
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The changes of species over timeEmbryonicNatural selectionMimicryEvolution
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which layer is the youngest1234
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which layer is the oldestBAEC
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What would happen if the Giraffes never evolve?they would surviveThey would thriveThey would become extinctThey will find another source of food
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What is this an example of?
Homologous structure
Analogous structure
Vestigial organs
Functional adaption
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Structures that are very different in structure or anatomy but have similar functions such as the wings of a bird and a butterfly.Vestigial StructuresHomologous StructuresAnalogous StructuresCladogram
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The picture shows the members of the Camelidae family. The physical features and the geographical origin of these animals provide evidence that -they live in the same type of environment.have slowly evolved to become herbivores.have a common ancestor.exchanged DNA in the past.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Study of embryos of various organisms to show a common ancestor because of similarities in developmentnatural selectionembryologyspeciationevolution
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Some organisms that share a common ancestor have features that have different functions, but similar structures. These are known asvestigial structuresanalogous structureshomologous structuresfossil structures
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.How do fossils provide evidence that evolution has happened on Earth?Fossils show how the sizes of certain animals has changed drastically over millions of yearsFossils show that some species have gone extinctFossils show how life forms present today are different than those from the pastDifferent sedimentary rock layers provide evidence for how the environment has changed over time
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The diagram shows fossils in different rock layers. Which of these statements about the age of these fossils is most likely correct?Fossil A and C are the same ageFossil B is older than fossil CFossils A is older than fossil BFossil D is older than fossil C
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The fossil record help scientists
better understand the kinds of organisms that lived in the past
better understand how the environment has changed over time
better understand how organisms have evolved over time
all of the above
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What is common ancestry?
When a species no longer exists
When organisms are descended from a single ancestor
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The cave fish and minnow are related to each other but the cave fish is blind and only has the remnants of an eye. What type of structure is this?
vestigial
analogous
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What is an example of a vestigial structure in a human?
liver
appendix
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.In the fossil recordthe most ancient species are in the deepest layer of rockthe most recent species are found in the middle layers of rockevidence of species from only the last 10,000 years can be foundspecies that existed at different times are in the same layer of rock