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natural selection
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refers to genetic change or changes in the frequencies of certain traits in populations due to differential reproductive success between individuals
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fixity of species
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notion that species once created cannot change
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reproductively isolated
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groups of organisms that, mainly because of genetic differences, are prevented from mating and producing offspring with members of other groups
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binomial nomenclature
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genus and species names are used to refer to species
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taxonomy
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branch of science concerned with the rules of classifying organisms on the basis of evolutionary relationships
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catastrophism
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view that the earths geological landscape is the result of violent cataclysmic events. versus the evolutionary view that earth has changed slowly over long periods of time
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uniformitarianism
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theory that earths features are the result of long term processes that continue to operate in the present as they did in the past
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transmutation
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the change of one species to another
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fitness
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in natural selection, a measure of relative reproductive success of individuals
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reproductive success
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number of offspring an individual produces and rears to reproductive age
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selective pressures
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forces in the environment that influence reproductive success in individuals
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fertility
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ability to conceive and produce healthy offspring
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genome
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entire genetic makeup of an individual or species
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biological continuity
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biological continuum, when expressions of a phenomenon continuously grade into one another so that there are no discrete categories, they exist on a continuum.
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christian fundamentalists
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group of ppl who believe the teachings of the bible are to be taken literally and are infallible
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