Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Evolution and Natural Selection ~ NGSS Link LS4.A-M.2

Anatomical similarities and differences between various organisms living today and between them and organisms in the fossil record, enable the reconstruction of evolutionary history and the inference of lines of evolutionary descent.

Items associated with this NGSS statement in this project (Evolution) and key idea (Similarities and differences in inh…)
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CA014003	Organisms that have fewer traits in common are probably more distantly related than organisms with more traits in common.
CA015003	Organisms that have more traits in common are probably more closely related than organisms with fewer traits in common.
CA020003	Organisms that have more traits in common share a more recent common ancestor than organisms with fewer traits in common. (Tree diagram)
CA016003	Organisms that have more traits in common share a more recent common ancestor than organisms with fewer traits in common.
CA022003	Fossils can be used to determine how closely organisms are related.

Items associated with this NGSS statement in this project (Evolution) and other key ideas
EN052002	A scientist studying the fossils of an extinct species of fish could discover what anatomical features the extinct species had, and he could discover similarities and differences between the features of the extinct fish and those of currently existing fish.