Comparative Vertibrate Anatomy

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Across
  1. 3. evolutionary biologist and paleontologist
  2. 4. early life
  3. 6. farther away from the attachment of the body
  4. 10. age of mammals
  5. 12. feature with similar function
  6. 14. caudal or tail
  7. 15. rocks could be arranged from oldest to youngest
  8. 16. species were immutable
  9. 20. ancient rocks
  10. 21. proposed relationships of the animal to other species
  11. 25. formed on the basis of non homologous characters
  12. 27. shows the taxonomic relationship of the organism
  13. 30. closer to the attachment of thr body
  14. 31. method of placing fossils in a relative sequence
  15. 35. belly or front part
  16. 36. lineage of organism
  17. 37. midline to the body
  18. 38. becomes Darwin's Bulldog
  19. 39. basis for rocognizing a clade
  20. 40. embraces the study of form and function
Down
  1. 1. study of how decay and tissue disintegration affect fossilization
  2. 2. study of structure of vertobrates
  3. 3. metamerism
  4. 5. roman name for whales
  5. 7. cranial
  6. 8. splits into left and right
  7. 9. can be summarized in graphic schemes or dendograms
  8. 10. smallest clade
  9. 11. molten rocks
  10. 13. synonym for a paraphyletic group
  11. 17. also known as coronal plane
  12. 18. features that simoly look a like
  13. 19. scientific consistency and cohesiveness to the concept of evolution
  14. 22. body that is laid out equally
  15. 23. functional significance to structure
  16. 24. vertibrate story
  17. 25. visible life
  18. 26. side to the body
  19. 28. term coined to recognize the importance of ecological analysis
  20. 29. back
  21. 31. series of internal compartments
  22. 32. wrote the Evolution of man
  23. 33. age of fishes
  24. 34. repeated design