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13 Cards in this Set
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Artificial selection |
Breeding to produce offspring with desired traits |
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Natural selection |
reproduction, variations, inheritance, and advantages of specific traits in an environment. |
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Evolution |
Cumulative changes in groups of organisms through time. |
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Desired traits |
Newly evolved features that do not appear in the fossils of common ancestors |
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Ancestoral traits |
features that do appear in ancestral forms |
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Homologous structures |
Anatomically similar structures inherited from a common ancestor |
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Vestigial structures |
reduced forms of functional structures in other organisms |
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Analogous structures |
Used for the some purpose but not inherited from a common ancestor |
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Embryo |
An early, pre-birth stage of an organism's development |
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Biogeography |
Distribution of plants and animals around the world in a field of study |
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Fitness |
contribution that an individual trait makes to the next generation |
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Camouflage |
Blend in with their environments |
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Mimicry |
One species evolves to resemble another species |
