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Adaptation |
the process of becoming adapted to an environment: an anatomical, physiological, or behavioral change hat improves a population's ability to survive |
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Artifical Selection |
the human practice of breeding animals or plants that have certain desired traits |
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Evolution |
the process of change by which new species develop from preexisting species over time |
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Fossil |
the race o remains of an organism, hat lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock` |
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Genetic Equilibrium |
a state in which the allele frequencies of a population remain in the same ratios from one generation to the next |
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Homologous |
describes a character that is shared by a group of species because it is inherited from a common ancestor |
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Natural Selection |
the process by which individuals that are better adapted o their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than those who are not better adapted |
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Normal Distribuion |
a distribution of numerical data whose graph forms a bell shaped curve that is symmetrical about the mean |
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Population Genetics |
the study of the frequency an interaction of alleles and genes in populations |
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Reproductive isolation |
a state in which a particular set of populations of populations can no longer interbreed to produce future generation of ofspring |
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Speciation |
the formation of new species as a result of evolution |
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Subspecies |
a taxonomic classification below species that groups organisms that live in different geographical species |
