Scientists once believed that modern-day reptiles were the only living descendants of dinosaurs, which were reptiles. Accumulating fossil evidence has now suggested that the most recent dinosaurs gave rise to birds, making birds one of the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. What statement provides the strongest evidence to support the claim that birds evolved from dinosaurs?

Arrange the following in the correct sequence, from earliest to most recent, in which these plant traits originated. 1. sporophyte dominance, gametophyte independence 2. sporophyte dominance, gametophyte dependence 3. gametophyte dominance, sporophyte dependence a) 1 → 2 → 3 b) 2 → 3 → 1 c) 2 → 1 → 3 d) 3 → 2 → 1 e) 3 → 1 → 2

Zoo geographic regions are characterized by the presence of specific groups of animals these regions are determined by the taxonomic or phylogenetic relationships of animals. the map shows the zoogeographic regions proposed by the naturalist alfred russel wallace in 1876. the similarities of organisms in which two areas numbered above provide the best evidence for common ancestry between the organisms in both locations ?

What could happen if two base pairs on a strand of dna or switched