Evolution

Is the process of biological change by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors

• Evolution
• Fitness
• Natural Selection
• Adaptation

Proposed that changes in an environment caused an organisms behavior to change, leading to the greater use or disuse of a structure

• Darwin
• Lamarck

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Variation that occurs among members of a different species

• Interspecific
• Intraspecific

Variation among the individuals of the same species

• Interspecific
• Intraspecific

The process by which humans change a species by breeding it for certain traits

• Artificial Selection
• Natural Selection

Is all the individuals of a species that live in an area

• Community
• Population
• Variation
• Adaptation

Is a measure of the ability to survive and produce more offspring relative to other members if the population in a given environment

• Adaptation
• Variation
• Structure
• Fitness

The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment survive better

• Natural Selection
• Artificial Selection

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• Catastrophism 
• Gradualism
• Uniformitarianism

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• Catastrophism
• Gradualism
• Uniformitarianism

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