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The process of change over time |
Evolution |
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Preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms |
Fossil |
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When nature provides variations, and humans select those that they find useful |
Artificial Selection |
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Any heritable characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment |
Adaptation |
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How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment |
Fitness |
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The process by which organisms with variations most suited to their local environment survive and have more offspring |
Natural Selection |
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The study of where organisms live now and where they and their ancestors lived in the past |
Biogeography |
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Structures that are shared by related species and that have been inherited from a common ancestor |
Homologous Structure |
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Body parts that share common function, but not structure |
Analogous Structure |
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Inherited from ancestors but have lost much or all of their original function due to different selection pressures acting on the descendant |
Vestigial Structures |
