Across
- 2. it is a tool to emphasizes the functional and evolutionary.
- 3. closest to the body.
- 5. is restricted to mean the action or property of a part as it works in an organism.
- 7. applies to two or more features that share a common ancestry.
- 9. refers to the tail.
- 12. a tree diagram, especially one showing taxonomic relationships.
- 13. Anatomy deals with anatomy and its significance
- 17. derived from more than one common evolutionary ancestor or ancestral group and therefore not suitable for placing in the same taxon.
- 20. also called as segmentation
- 21. refers to the sides.
- 23. Symmetry refers to a body that is laid out equally from central axis.
- 24. the mid-line of the body.
- 26. descended from a common evolutionary ancestor or ancestral group, but not including all the descendant groups.
- 27. to features with a similar function.
- 29. the branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants.
- 30. to features that simply look alike.
- 32. is the study of relationships among different groups of organisms and their evolutionary development.
- 33. is simply a named group of organisms.
- 35. Symmetry it devides the body into two mirrored images.
- 36. also called phylogenetic systematics.
- 37. a body or structure built of repeating or duplicated sections.
Down
- 1. is the term that has been coined to recognize the importance of ecological analysis in the examination of a morphological system.
- 2. is a lineage—all organisms in a lineage plus the ancestor they have in common.
- 4. refers to the head.
- 6. the study of the forms of things.
- 7. swimming strokes.
- 8. is the process of an animal or plant becoming preserved in a hard, petrified form.
- 10. is the study of how decay and tissue disintegration affect fossilization.
- 11. refers to the belly or front.
- 13. used by a scientist studying phylogenetic systematics to visualize the groups of organisms being compared, how they are related, and their most common ancestors.
- 14. refers to the back.
- 15. sweeping side to side movements of tail.
- 16. Selection the mechanism of evolution.
- 18. a method of placing fossils in a relative sequence to each other
- 19. describes the way in which an animal's body meets the surrounding environment.
- 22. an attached appendage has a region farthest.
- 25. Darwin he proposed the conditions for and mechanism of this evolutionary change.
- 28. or monophylogeny, is a term used to describe a group of organisms that are classified in the same taxon and share a most common recent ancestor.
- 31. the scientist who felt that species were fixed and unchangeable.
- 34. electric record of the muscle.
