Across
- 2. a kind of biological blueprint
- 4. farthest to the body
- 9. electric record of muscles
- 10. proposed the young age of Earth
- 12. special case of homology
- 15. method of placing fossils in a relative sequence to each other
- 16. feature that simply look alike
- 19. Age of Mammals
- 25. known as the “coal-bearing” period
- 26. careful anatomical description of an animal’s structural design.
- 28. action or property of a part as it works
- 31. study of how decay and tissue disintegration affect fossilization
- 34. a plane that divides the dorsal and ventral portion
- 35. chest supports the forelimbs
- 38. early life
- 39. to the front or belly
- 40. an organism
- 41. features with similar function
- 42. a plane that splits the left and right portion
Down
- 1. Age of Reptiles
- 3. molten rocks
- 5. take its name from the Jura Mountains
- 6. proposed mechanism of inheritance of acquired characteristics
- 7. ancient rocks
- 8. island contain its own assortment of species
- 11. sides of the body
- 13. allows direct inspection of hard parts or marked parts during performance
- 14. Age of Fishes
- 17. repeated section
- 18. hips supports hindlimbs
- 20. assortment of taxa
- 21. a reproductive factory producing eggs and sperm
- 22. features that share common ancestry
- 23. he felt that species were unchangeable
- 24. produces new variations
- 27. importance of ecological analysis in the examination of a morphological system
- 29. a plane that separates that anterior and posterior portion
- 30. closest to the body
- 32. Darwin's Bulldog
- 33. middle of the body
- 36. microorganism with nucleus and ability for sexual reproduction
- 37. takes its name from rocks in Germany
- 38. visible life