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Species |
group of organisms that can mate with one another to produce fertile offspring. |
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Adaption |
Organisms survive and reproduce in its enviroment |
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Evolution |
The process in which populations gradually change over time |
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Fossil |
Remains or imprints of once living organisms found in the layers of rock |
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Fossil record |
Timeline of fossils |
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Trait |
A genetically determined characteristic |
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Selective Breeding |
Process in which humans select which plants or animals to reproduce based on certain desired traits |
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Charles Darwin |
Scientist who found out earth was older than anyone had ever imagine |
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Naturalist |
Scientist who nature |
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Natural Selection |
Process in which by individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully then less well adapted individuals do a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution |
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Generation Time |
Period between the birth of one generation and the birth of the next generation |
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Speciation |
The formation of new species as the result of evoultion |
