Natural Selection & Change Over Time

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The struggle among living things to get the necessary amount of food, water, and shelter

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Competition

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An inherited behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

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Adaptation

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A group of similar organisms that can mate and reproduce.

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Species

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A living thing

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Organism

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The process by which an offspring receives genes from its parents.

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Inheritance

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The process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms

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Evolution

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To propose a possible explanation to a question that can be investigated.

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Hypothesize

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A process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the same species.

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Natural Selection

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The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past

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Fossil

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Who developed the first scientific system for classifying and naming living things?

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Linnaeus