Evolution History Vocab Amplify

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A trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment.

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Adaptive trait

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A related organism from a previous generation.

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Ancestor

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A part of an organism (for example, one or more bones).

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Body structure

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Everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

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Environment

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The process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time

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Evolution

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A graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group

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Histogram

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The process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations

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Natural selection

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The process by which one population evolves into two or more different species

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Speciation

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a scientist who studies fossils in order to understand the ancient history of life on Earth

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paleontologist

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a body structure in two or more species that features the same parts

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shared structure