Quiz #5 Evidence of Evolution

It is the simplest organisms are found in the rocks, oldest or latest.

The true age of the Earth.

Genetics accounts in a neat and orderly way for the production of new variations in organisms.

The greater the degree of physical similarity, the closer the biological relationship.

These are anatomical features, of different organisms, that have a similar appearance or function because they were inherited from a common ancestor that also had them.

These are anatomical features that have the same form or function in different species that have no known common ancestor.

By comparing the sequences of “letters” in the DNA of different groups of animals or plants, we can specify the degree of relationship among the groups more precisely than by any other means.

Striking similarities are seen in the developmental stages of many organisms of different species.

It proved that more distantly related species showing more differences in their DNA than closely related ones, just as Darwin’s theory predicts.

It states that the development of an organism often yields information about the evolutionary history of the species as a whole