Evolution and Natural Selection

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What is the observable fact of Descent with Modification?

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Offspring look and behave slightly different than their parents

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What is the idea of Common Descent?

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All life on Earth is related

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Who discovered Natural Selection?

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Charles Darwin

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What did Charles Darwin observe on the Galapagos islands?

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Unique species of plants and animals

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How did the island creatures on the Galapagos islands become specially adapted for island life?

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Through the process of Natural Selection

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What is the process of selective breeding?

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Choosing which traits to keep in offspring

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What is the process by which random evolutionary changes are selected for by nature?

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Natural Selection

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What does Natural Selection do to positive changes and negative traits?

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Keeps positive changes and discards negative traits

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Who was the naturalist that traveled the world to study plants and animals?

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Charles Darwin

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The gradual change in species over time is...

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Evolution