Genetics and Evolution

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A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring is called?

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Species

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What is the technique that allows scientists to compare and determine which fossil is older?

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Relative dating

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Over a long period of time, what can lead to evolution?

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Natural selection

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Who is known for the theory of evolution by natural selection?

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Charles Darwin

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What do we call the preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past?

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Fossil

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What is the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring?

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Natural selection

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What is the term for a change in the genetic composition of a population over time?

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Evolution

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What is the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics?

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Genetics

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What do we call a fossil that forms when an organism is buried in sediment and the sediment hardens around it?

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Cast fossil

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What is the term for the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed from earlier forms?

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Evolution