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Evolution rocks FC

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