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Coevolution |
When two species influence homologies in one another. |
The Humming bird growing a longer snout because of its pollination flower. |
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Adaptation |
When natural selections chooses the traits in a species that are better-fitted for the environment. |
Black moths during the industrial revolution versus white moths. |
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Speciation |
Splitting species into more subspecies. |
Humans being apart but somewhat the same as Neanderthals. |
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Geographic Isolation |
When organisms of the same species are separated from each other. |
Blobs being separated by a bridge and then growing unlike to each other. |
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Adaptive Radiation |
The rapid adaptation of a species to its environment. |
Humans growing immune to different bugs. |
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Common Ancestor |
Species that derive from a more common ancestor and are linked by it. |
All animals with vertebrate. |
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Stasis |
A period of no evolutionary change. |
Never happens because one of the characteristics is almost always met. |
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Gradualism |
A slower state of evolution. |
Unicellular beings changing into multicellular beings. |
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Punctuated Equilibrium |
Most species will mostly stay in stasis, with little evolutionary change. |
Humans changing only slightly. |
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Species |
a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. |
Humans are a species |
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Homologies |
having the same relation, relative position, or structure, in particular. |
Related to |
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Analogies |
comparable in certain respects, typically in a way that makes clearer the nature of the things compared. |
Similar |
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Binomial nomenclature |
the system of nomenclature in which two terms are used to denote a species of living organism, the first one indicating the genus and the second the specific epithet. |
species with different genus |
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Eubacteria |
a bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement. |
type of bacteria |
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Archaea |
microorganisms that are similar to bacteria in size and simplicity of structure but radically different in molecular organization. |
another term for archaebacteria. |
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Protista |
taxonomic kingdom made up of eukaryotic, unicellular organisms. |
kingdom for organisms |
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Fungi |
any of a group of unicellular, multicellular, or syncytial spore-producing organisms feeding on organic matter, including molds, yeast, mushrooms, and toadstools. |
type of kingdom for species of fungus such as mushrooms |
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Plantae |
Multicellular eukaryotes |
The taxonomic kingdom comprising all plants. |
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Animalia |
Multicellular eukaryotes |
animals. this is their kingdom |
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Clade |
a taxonomic group of organisms classified together on the basis of features traced to a common ancestor. |
group that have a common ancestor |
