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If a bat, a human, an alligator, and a penguin all evolved from a common ancestor, then they should share common anatomical traits. In fact, they do. Compare the forelimbs of the human, the bat, the penguin, and the alligator. Find the humerus, radius, ulna, and carpals in each forelimb. Though the limbs look strikingly different on the outside and though they vary in function, they are very similar in skeletal structure. More significantly, they are derived from the same structures in the embryo. Structures that are embryologically similar, but have different functions, are called homologous structures. Though these animals look different, a comparison of homologous structures indicates that they are quite similar. This suggests that these animals evolved from a common ancestor.
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What are structures that have different functions in different species but develop from the same embryonic tissue?
Homologous structures are anatomical structures that share a common evolutionary origin, but may have different functions in different species. These structures develop from the same embryonic tissue and demonstrate evolutionary relationships between species. An example is the forelimbs of vertebrates, which have different functions such as wings in birds, flippers in whales, and arms in humans.
What are structures that share a common evolutionary origin called?
Structures that share a common evolutionary origin are called homologous structures. These structures may have different functions in different species, but they share a common ancestry.
Similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor are called structures?
Homologous structures.
Two species have homologous structures what do these homologous strcutures show about the evolutionary relationship between the two species?
The presence of homologous structures (for example, the bone structure in chimpanzee arms, human arms, and whale flippers) indicates that the species sharing that homologous structure share a common ancestor.
What Similar structures that related species inherited from a common ancestor are?
Homologous structures.
What structures have been shared by related species and have been inherited from a common ancestor?
what is Similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor
How would you use homologous structure in a sentence?
I learned about homologous and heterozygous structures in Biology.
How are analogous and homologous structures different?
They are different because homologous structures have the same structure, but serve a different function. Like mammal arms(human, bat and whales). Analogous structues are different structures, but serve the same function. For example, bat wings and butterfly wings.
How is the idea of common descent supported by example of homologous structures?
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What term refers to similar structures that relate to species have inherited from common ancestors?
homologous structures (correct answer, your response)
What is homologous structures?
A structure with similar shape but a different use
Similar structures that evolved independently?
homologous structures
