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Evolution rocks FC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imprint fossil | A leaf, feather, bones or even the entire body of an imprint on sediment that later hardens to become rock. |
| Mineralized fossil | Minerals can replace wood or bone to create a piece of petrified wood or a mineralized bone fossil |
| Frozen fossil | the remains of organisms like this mammoth can be trapped in ice that remains frozen for thousands of years. |
| Fossils in ember | when the sticky resin of certin cone-bearing plant hardens over time amber forms it can contain the remains of trapped insects. |
| Cast fossils | minerals can fill in the hollows of animal tracks a mollusk shell or other parts of an organism to create a cast. |
| homologous structures | body parts that have the same in origin and structure and similar in function |
| vestigial structures | the body's of some organisms like structures that do not seem to have a function. |
| embryology | the study of embryos and their development. an embryo is the earliest growth stage of an organism. |
| DNA | is the molecule that controls heredity and directs the development of every organism. a.k.a. blood |
| fossils | provide a record of organisms in the past yet the record is not complete |
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