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SAMPLE ACTIVITY SHEETS IN SCIENCE 10

QUARTER 3, WEEK 5

MELC: Explain how fossil records, comparative anatomy, and genetic

information provide evidence for evolution.
 K to 12 BEC CG: S10LT-IIIf-39

Objectives:

1. Identify the different evidences of evolution.

2. Differentiate homologous and analogous structures.
3. Explain how fossil records, comparative anatomy, and genetic
information provide evidence for evolution.

Prepared by:

NOVA LESLIE Y. AGAPAY

Teacher III
 Simple

Activities

Name: ______________________________________________________Date: ___________

Grade/Section: ________________________________________________________ Score: __________

Title of the Activity: Reveal the Evidences

Most Essential Learning Competency: Explain how fossil records, comparative

anatomy, and genetic information provide evidence for evolution.
 K to 12 BEC CG: S10LT-IIIf-39

Directions: Arrange the jumbled letters in each row of box to form a word and
write the answers on the lines provided. Supply the missing letters to answer the
given riddle.

Riddle: What do you call the process by which different kinds of living organisms
are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history
of earth?

1. S O L F S S I __ __ __ __ __ __ __
3 7 4

2. D A N __ __ __
8

3. R I V A O N A T I __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
2 7 6 7 3 8

4. T A Y A N O M __ __ __ __ __ __ __
8 6 3

5. U S T R C R U T E __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
6 5 6 5 1

ANSWER:
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 8
 Moderate

Activities

Name: ______________________________________________________Date: ___________

Grade/Section: ________________________________________________________ Score: __________

Title of the Activity: Evolve and Solve

Most Essential Learning Competency: Explain how fossil records, comparative

anatomy, and genetic information provide evidence for evolution.

 K to 12 BEC CG: S10LT-IIIf-39

Directions: Complete the crossword by filling in a word that fits each clue.

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Across
2. It is the study of fossils.
3. Body structures that have different functions but have similar structures.
4. Body structures that have similar functions but different structures.
5. These are preserved remains or traces of organisms found in the earth’s strata.

Down
1.The tabulated standard international record of sedimentary rock layers and their fossils.
 Challenging

Activities

Name: ______________________________________________________Date: ___________

Grade/Section: ________________________________________________________ Score: __________

Title of the Activity: Prove the Evidences

Most Essential Learning Competency: Explain how fossil records, comparative anatomy,
and genetic information provide evidence for evolution.

 K to 12 BEC CG: S10LT-IIIf-39

Directions: For each question below, identify whether the evidence is comparative
anatomy (homologous structures), comparative anatomy (analogous structures),
DNA analysis, or from the fossil record. Then, explain why it is an evidence of
evolution.

1. Humans, dogs, and whales have the same bones in their arms or fins.
a) What type of evidence is this? _____________________________________________
b) Why is this an evidence of evolution? _______________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

2. Scientists find fossilized bones of a huge animal that doesn’t exist today.
a) What type of evidence is this? _____________________________________________
b) Why is this an evidence of evolution? _______________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

3. The human gene for your muscle protein is different from monkey muscle protein in 4 places
and different from a chicken’s gene in 25 places.
a) What type of evidence is this? _____________________________________________
b) Why is this an evidence of evolution? _______________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

4.Humans, rabbits, and zebras all have an appendix, an extra piece in their digestive system,
although in humans it’s much smaller.
a) What type of evidence is this? _____________________________________________
b) Why is this an evidence of evolution? _______________________________________

______________________________________________________________________
5. Tube-lipped nectar bats lick nectar from flowers using a long tongue made of soft muscle.
Butterflies lick nectar from flowers using a long tongue made of hard protein.
a) What type of evidence is this? _____________________________________________
b) Why is this an evidence of evolution? _______________________________________

______________________________________________________________________
 Enrichment

Activities

Name: ______________________________________________________Date: ___________

Grade/Section: ________________________________________________________ Score: __________

Title of the Activity: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Most Essential Learning Competency: Explain how fossil records, comparative

anatomy, and genetic information provide evidence for evolution.

 K to 12 BEC CG: S10LT-IIIf-39

Directions: Match the given description in Column A with its corresponding

picture in Column B. Write the letter of the correct answer.
COLUMN A COLUMN B

_____1. Homologous structures are body parts of

species that have similar features, indicating a A.
common ancestor or same development origin.
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_____2. Analogous structures are similar structures

in unrelated organisms. These structures are similar B.

because they do the same job, not because they share

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a common ancestry.

_____3. Fossils are direct evidence of evolution. One

C.
type includes imprints, which are formed when body
structures form impressions on sedimentary rocks.
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_____4. Another type of fossil are true form fossils.

These are fossils of the whole or entire body of the
organism, like an actual animal or animal part. D.

_____5. Another evidence for evolution is the

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sequence of bases of the nucleotides in DNA. The
greater the similarities in their protein structures, the
E.
closer the relationship between organisms.

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Answer Key:

(For Simple Activities: Reveal the Evidences)

1. FOSSILS
2. DNA
3. VARIATION
4. ANATOMY
5. STRUCTURE
ANSWER: EVOLUTION

(For Moderate Activities: Evolve and Solve)

DOWN
1. FOSSIL RECORDS

ACROSS

2. PALEONTOLOGY
3. HOMOLOGOUS
4. ANALOGOUS
5. FOSSILS

(For Challenging Activities: Prove the Evidences)

1. a) Comparative anatomy (homologous structure)

b) This is an evidence of evolution because if all these animals have the same bones, they
probably all evolved from one creature that had those bones a very long time ago.
2. a) Fossil record
b) This is an evidence of evolution because these fossilized bones show that life on earth was
once different from life found on earth today.
3. a) DNA Analysis
b) This is an evidence of evolution because it shows the similarities of some organisms in terms
of protein structures. The greater the similarities, the closer the relationship between
organisms.
4. a) Comparative anatomy (homologous structure)
b) This is an evidence of evolution because appendix is considered as vestigial structure.
Vestigial structures can provide insights an organism’s ancestry.
5. a) Comparative anatomy (analogous structure)
b) This is an evidence of evolution because it shows that these structures (tongue) evolved
independently in different organisms due to similar environments or similar selective
pressures.

(For Enrichment Activities: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words)

1. E
2. A
3. C
4. D
5. B
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Carale, L. R., et. Al., (2004). Biology (revised 2004 ed.). University of the Philippines National
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Redlands Unified School District. (n.d.). Evidence for Evolution [Pdf].

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