Evolution Vocabulary Test

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A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.

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natural selection

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The gradual change in a species over time

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evolution

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A process typically caused by the genetic isolation from a main population resulting in a new genetically distinct species.

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speciation

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Who wrote On the Origin of Species, which discusses evolution by "natural selection" (the weaker die out)?

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Charles Darwin

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Preserved remains of once-living organisms

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fossils

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The geological record of organisms on earth that have been preserved in the rock in a chronological order (oldest on bottom); evidence of common ancestry

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fossil record

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Structures that have different mature forms in different organisms but develop from the same embryonic tissues

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homologous structures

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Similar function but different structure - does not show common ancestry - Ex: butterfly wing and bat wing

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analogous structures

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A structure that is present in an organism but no longer serves its original purpose

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vestigial structures

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Process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called natural selection

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survival of the fittest

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