Read the selection from the section "Vestigial Structures." These are leftovers from an earlier form of the species before it changed. Over time, a species can collect several adaptations that eventually render a particular structure useless, however, this structure does not completely disappear.

kepler used the data from tycho blahe (his mentor) to construct the laws of planetary motion.

  distance on the y-axis and time on the x-axis.

explanation:

the instantaneous velocity = change in position/time taken

the slope of the graph should give instantaneous velocity.

  slope of a graph = change in value of y -axis / change in values of x -axis

  comparing both the equations

    change in value of y -axis = change in position

  change in values of x -axis = time taken

so position values should be on the y axis and time values should be on the x axis.

distance on the y-axis and time on the x-axis.