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Biology Unit 7
Biology Unit 7 Evidence of Evolution Vocabulary
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| geographic distribution of plants and animals which indicate common ancestry | biogeography |
| similarities in the nucleotide or amino acid sequence of organisms | molecular homologies |
| the theory that all life forms descended from one "universal common ancestor" | common ancestry |
| the hypothesis that evolution proceeds chiefly by the accumulation of gradual changes | gradualism |
| long periods of little or no change | stasis |
| the record of the occurance and evolution of living organisms through geologic time as inferred from fossils | fossil record |
| physiological similarities among organisms | anatomical homologies |
| the idea that genetic information was stored and transmitted by RNA | the RNA world hypothesis |
| similartites in the embryonic develompent of organisms | developmental homologies |
| the hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change | punctuated equilibrium |