Question

You and your friend inspect a group of fossils from different organisms with various features. Your friend is convinced that all of the fossils are unrelated, but you find evidence that these organisms share an ancestor. What is an example of evidence that you could use to best support this argument?(1 point)
Responses

tooth features
tooth features

number of bones
number of bones

patterns in limb structures
patterns in limb structures

heights

Answer 1

patterns in limb structures

Homologous limb patterns (same bones arranged similarly despite different functions) are strong evidence of common ancestry.