Evolution Vocab

Structures or behaviors in organisms that help them survive in their environment

• Adaptations
• Competition
• Natural Selection
• Fossil

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Process that occurs over generations where favorable traits become more common

• Natural Selection
• Artificial Selection
• Adaptation
• Selective Breeding

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Variety of alleles that exist and are expressed in a population

• Genetic Variation
• Adaptation
• Heterozygous
• Dominant

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Came up with the Theory of Evolution after many years of research including the Galapagos Islands

• Charlie Brown
• Charles Darwin
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Chris Brown

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Limited resources cause individuals to fight for survival

• Competition
• Adaptation
• Population
• Fossil Record

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Mineral replacement, preserved remains, or trace of organisms that lived in the past

• Fossil
• Fossil Record
• Trace Fossil
• Body Fossil

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All the fossils and the information collected from them

• Fossil
• Fossil Record
• Trace Fossil
• Body Fossil

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Footprints or impressions made by an animal or a plant while it was living and it has hardened into stone

• Fossil
• Fossil Record
• Trace Fossil
• Body Fossil

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Preserved parts of organisms or whole organism, pressure causes minerals to replace the organism’s cells

• Fossil
• Fossil Record
• Trace Fossil
• Body Fossil

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Similarities in characteristics between two organisms because the originated from a common ancestor

• Adaptation
• Homologies
• Homozygous
• Heterozygous

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