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Chapter 15-2.
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| fossil | remains or traces of an organism that died long ago |
| superposition | states that if a rock strata at a location has not been disturbed the lowest stratum was formed before the stratum above it |
| relative age | age compared to other fossils |
| absolute age | the time since formation |
| biogeography | study of the locations of organisms around the world |
| homologous structure | anatomical structures that occur in different species and that originated by heredity from a structure in the most recent comman ancestor |
| analogous structure | have closely related functions but do not derive from the same anscerial structure |
| vestigial structure | seem to serve no function but resemble structures with functions in related organisms |
| phylogeny | relationships by ancestry among groups of organisms |