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9 Cards in this Set
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Speices
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A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring
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Fossil
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The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past
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Adaptation
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A trait that increases an organism's ability to urvive and reproduce.
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Evolution
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A process of change over time
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Scientific Theory
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A well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations
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Natural Selection
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The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce more than other members of the same speices
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Variation
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Any difference between individuals of the same speices
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Homomlogous Structures
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Simimlar structures that related speices have inherited from a common ancestor
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Gradualism
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Involves small changes that add up to major changes over a long period of time
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