AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fossils provide material evidence for evolution. The examination of dead remains of ancient organisms helps us to understand the course that evolution took. For example, Archeopteryx is a fossil which shows the connection between the birds and reptiles.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fossils provide important evidence for evolution and the adaptation of plants and animals to their environments. Fossil evidence provides a record of how creatures evolved and how this process can be represented by a ‘tree of life’, showing that all species are related to each other.

Detailed explanation-3: -Evidence for evolution: anatomy, molecular biology, biogeography, fossils, & direct observation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood and DNA remnants. The totality of fossils is known as the fossil record.