Carlos learns that all living things have cells with the same system of genetic material. Scientists have concluded that this shows that all living things had a common ancestor. Carlos finds this difficult to understand as he looks at pictures of a dog and snake. He cannot see many similarities between them, but what shows evidence of their common evolutionary past?

A. DNA
B. gene transfer
C. natural selection
D. endosymbiosis

Form two real words by combining a prefix and/or suffix with the root listed below. if you need to, use your dictionary. then illustrate that the word has the meaning of that root by using one of those words in a sentence. example: dic, dict=to say 1. addiction 2. edict the judge's edict was the final say in that matter. mit, mis=send

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

What is the main reason reverened thomas lane butts finds confort in to kill a mocking bird