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Adaptations
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specialized features of animals and plants that perform one or more useful functions
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homology
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presence in two different groups of animals or plants of organs that have the same ancestral origin but serve different functions
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Vestigial organs
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organs that serve no apparent purpose but resemble organs that do perform functions in other creatures
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Natural selection
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process that operates in nature but parallels the artificial selection by which breeders develop new varieties of domestic animals and plants for human use
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Particulate inheritance
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explains how certain hereditary factors (genes) retain their identities while being passed on from parents to offspring
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