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Question Set: Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity - Fish
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices:
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NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas:
- What are some of the key shared, derived traits that each group of fishes have?
- Choose an example of one of the more primitive fishes described in this section and compare it with an example of a teleost fish. How are they similar and different?
- Choose an evolutionary trend for teleost fishes (like spiny fins), find an example of a fish that has this adaptation, and describe how it is beneficial.
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