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13 Cards in this Set
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Every living oranism has |
A comman ancestor |
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Linnaes |
Father of taxonomy -physical looks |
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Structual adaptation |
Form an organism has to survive |
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Behavioral adaptation |
Actions that improve survival |
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Physiological adapatation |
How an organism functiond |
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Adaptions |
- arise because of natural selection -help offspring survive |
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Homologous structures |
Variants of a structure present in a comman ancestor |
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Analogous structure |
Structures that arise due to similar enviroments |
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Divergent evolution |
Organisms evolving from a comman ancestor |
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Convergent evolution |
Independent evelotion due to similar environental stresses |
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Biogeography |
Study of distrubution of living things |
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Endemic species |
Species found no where else in the world |
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Vestigial structures |
Structures that had importance in our ancestors but are useless now |
