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Across
- 2. One of the few modern sciences that addresses the natural unity of both structure and evolution.
- 6. It pertains to an organism’s anatomical structure or behavior patterns that is coincidentally highly suited to a new environment and enhances its probability to survive under new conditions.
- 7. He wrote The Evolution of Man, in which he depicted the human phylogeny.
- 11. He was known for his vertebral theory of the skull.
- 12. The era which was termed the Age of Reptiles.
- 14. He was well known for opposing Darwin’s theory and did not believe in the transmutation of species.
- 15. The plane which separates the anterior and posterior portions.
- 16. He wrote the book in which the theory of evolution by natural selection was based from.
- 18. Groups that include the ancestor and all of the descendant groups
- 21. The kind of systematics that classifies species based on the most obvious similarities between them.
- 24. A state wherein traits are inherited from the most recent common ancestor.
- 25. The Mississipian and Pennsylvanian periods are also known as?
Down
- 1. Refers to how the part is used in the environment during the course of the organism’s life history.
- 3. It recognizes similar features that look alike, but was not inherited from a common ancestor.
- 4. In truly segmented animals, it sequentially subdivides the hydrostatic skeleton into a series of internal compartments.
- 5. The process that divides a body into duplicated sections.
- 8. He recognized that organisms are complex functional wholes.
- 9. He referred to the vertebrate evolution as the “vertebrate story.”
- 10. An example of this is the wings of a bat and the arms of a human that are composed of the same bones namely radius, ulna and humerus.
- 13. The period when the first vertebrates appeared.
- 17. It is restricted to mean the action or property of a part as it works in an organism.
- 19. Groups that include a common ancestor and some, but not all of its descendants.
- 20. He proposed a progressive change in species along an ascending scale, from the lowest on one end to the most complex and perfect.
- 22. A biological blueprint upon which an organism was built.
- 23. Huxley was associated to this animal for his advocacy to Darwin's theory of evolution.