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12 Cards in this Set
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Natural Selection
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the most critical mechanism of evolutionary change
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Fixity of Species
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the notion that species, once created, can never change
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Reproductively Isolated
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pertaining to groups of organisms that, mainly because of genetic differences, are prevented from mating and producing offsprings with members of other groups
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Binomial Nomenclature
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genus and species are used to refer to species
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Taxonomy
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branch of science concerened with the rules of classifying organisms on the basis of evolutinary relationship
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Catastrophism
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the view that earth geological landscape is the result of violent cataclysmic events
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Uniformitariansim
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theory that earths features are the result of long-term process that continue to operate in the present as they did in the past
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Selective pressure
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forces in the environment that influence reproductive success in individuals
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Fertility
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the ability to conceive and produce healthy offspring
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Genome
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refers to the entire genetic makeup of an individual
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Biological continuity
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refers to biological continuum
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Christian Fundamentalists
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holds that the teachings of the bible are infallible and that scriptures are to be taken literally
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