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Evolution has left much evidence
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fossil | preserved remains or markings left by organisms that lived in the past |
| fossil record | this chronological collection of life's remains in the rock layers, recorded during the passage of time |
| Basilosaurus fossils suggest that... | ancient whales evolved from ancestors with hind limbs |
| geographic distribution | what organisms evolved from which ancestor or common ancestor |
| homologous structures | similar structures in species sharing a common ancestor |
| vestigial structure | remnants of structures that may have had important functions in an ancestral species, but have no clear function in come of the modern descendants |
| similarities in development (embryological evidence) | all embryos have this stage in which pouches appear on the sides of throat, making them look relatively alike |
| DNA sequences and molecular evidence | sequences must have been inherited from a relatively recent common ancestor |