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Ap Biology Chapter 1 Summary

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Chapter 1
1. The author chose to focus on 375 million year old rock because the transition from fins to necks and limbs occurred then. The scientists knew that any time later than this and they would find lots of animals with limbs. But if they searched earlier than this time then there are only fish without necks. When the fish were evolving they evolved necks before they evolved limbs so this was a good sign in chronology. Sedimentary rocks are the best types of rocks for fossil due to their gradual pressure and low amounts of heat. Sedimentary rock is also found in lake beds and streams, where fish and aquatic wildlife are most likely to live.
2. Titaalik is the first “fish” to have characteristics …show more content…

Hydroxyapatite is a chemical in teeth that makes them much harder than boned. Because of this teeth do not decay, and therefore under certain conditions are still present many million years after the bones have diminished.
2. Conodonts are the teeth of an old jawless fish. They have been found on every continent they were used by jawless fish as teeth because they could cut through food easily.
3. When Shubin says this he refers to the chronology of the inter epidermis organisms. Teeth were the first structures to form out of the skin. Without the groundbreaking efforts of the tooth, hair scales and breasts would not have been able to form because they evolved from teeth.
Chapter 5
1. The trigeminal and facial cranial nerves at first seem to be tangled muscle and nerves. When actually they only get that way because of where they came from, and because they had previous function in our ancestors. There are 12 Cranial nerves that come from the brain. These nerves control our facial expressions and all basic actions of the face. The trigeminal and facial cranial nerves are the two cranial nerves that are the source for this misconception of chaos, for the have “very complex functions and take tortuous paths through the head to do their job” (Shubin

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