Evolutionary analysis ch. 2 questions with correct answers

Lamarck Answer in 1809 that all species are derived from gradual evolution. He guessed it was driven by the inheritance of acquired traits. Said simple life forms are spontaneously generated from nonliving matter. His ideas were popular until the 1930s Vestigial structure Answer remnant of a structure that may have had an important function in a species' ancestors, but has no clear function in the modern species Law of succession Answer the general pattern of correspondence between fossil and living forms from the same locale Archaeopteryx Answer transitional form that has fully modern feathers and a dinosaurian skeleton Ring species Answer evidence where one species splits into two. ex. Greenish warblers with different songs inbreed wherever they meet except central Siberia homology Answer Similarity in characteristics resulting from a shared ancestry. molecular homology Answer with a few exceptions, all organisms use the same