Thursday, September 26, 2013

Quiz 9/25/13

1.) The picture shows a mammal that lived on land (specifically a whale) evolving into a a mammal that lives in the water. These intermidiate/transition fossils provide hard evidence that evolution occured because they show the subject itself changing over time.

2.) c. Australia

3.) Birds, bats, and dragonflys all live in the air. Over millions of years, these living specimen have all evolved their wings seperately. All their wings have a different structure but the same function., making them an example of a covergent evolution.

4.) The lab shows that DNA works as evidince because we compared the different sequences in the strands of data. Ancestry is evidence for evolution because we compared the DNA strands of a common ancestor, Gorilla, Chimpanzee and a human.

5.) Homology is the comparison of bone/ bodily structures in differnt living organisms. An example would be the comparison of  arm bones in animals that can grasp things with their hands such as a human, or a gorilla. Another example would be comparing the wing structures of a bat and a bird.

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