CHAPTER 1: Introduction

3. closest to the body
5. ancient rocks
6. method of placing fossils in a relative sequence to each other
9. hips supports hindlimbs
10. sides of the body
12. Age of Mammals
15. to the front or belly
16. a plane that divides the dorsal and ventral portion
17. action or property of a part as it works in an organism
20. early life
22. repeated section
23. Darwin's Bulldog
25. allows direct inspection of hard parts or marked parts during performance
28. middle of the body
32. proposed the young age of Earth
33. known as the “coal-bearing” period
34. special case of homology
37. a plane that splits the left and right portion
38. produces new variations
39. chest supports the forelimbs
40. features that share common ancestry

1. takes its name from rocks in Germany
2. a kind of biological blueprint
3. visible life
4. a plane that separates that anterior and posterior portion
7. Age of Fishes
8. molten rocks
11. microorganism with nucleus and ability for sexual reproduction
13. electric record of muscles
14. study of how decay and tissue disintegration affect fossilization
18. Age of Reptiles
19. feature that simply look alike
20. a reproductive factory producing eggs and sperm
21. features with similar function
24. proposed mechanism of inheritance of acquired characteristics
26. take its name from the Jura Mountains
27. island contain its own assortment of species
29. farthest to the body
30. he felt that species were unchangeable
31. importance of ecological analysis in the examination of a morphological system
35. careful anatomical description of an animal’s structural design.
36. assortment of taxa