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population
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group of individuals that belong to the same species, live in the same area, and breed with others in the group
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natural selection
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process by which populations change in response to their environment as individuals better adapted to the envionment leave more offspring than those individuals not suited to the environment; species adapt to changing environmental condtions, bot physical and biological.
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adaption
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process of becoming adapted to an environment; an anatomical structure, psychological process, or behavioral trait that improves an orgasimss likelihood of survival and reproduction
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isolation
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condition in which two populations of a species that have disappeared permanently
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extinct
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term used to indicate species that have dissapeared permanently
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Vestigal Structure
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structure reduced in size and function; considered to be evidence of an organisms evolutionary past
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homologous structure
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structures that share a common ancestry
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