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Remains of life from an earlier time.
a. A piece of wood or bone replaced by minerals;
b. An imprint of a leaf, feather, or organism in rock;
c. A cast made of minerals that filled in hollows of an animal track, mollusk shell or other parts of an organism;
d. An organism frozen in ice;
e. An insect or other organism trapped in plant resin. |
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| Similarities in embryos show evolutionary relationships. The closer the similarity between embryos of two species, the closer their evolutionary relationship. |
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| Body parts with similar structures , indicating similar origin, usually with differing functions. |
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| Body parts that are greatly reduced in size and have little or no function. |
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| Similarities in DNA that show evolutionary relationships. The closer the similarity between DNA of two species, the closer their Evolutionary relationship. |
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