Evolution

Organisms with adaptations that are favorable in the environment will pass those adaptations on to their offspring.

• Natural selection

• Artificial selection

• Speciation

• Competition

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Humans select traits in offspring that they find more desirable to pass on to future generations.

• Natural selection

• Artificial selection

• Speciation

• Competition

The separation of a new species from its former population

• Natural selection

• Artificial selection

• Speciation

• Competition

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Two organisms that have the same needs for food, shelter, or mates

• Natural selection

• Artificial selection

• Speciation

• Competition

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A change in an offspring that can be passed down to new generations

• Adaptation

• Vestigial structure

• Homologous structure

• Analogous structure

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An ancestral characteristic that an organism no longer uses

• Adaptation

• Vestigial structure

• Homologous structure

• Analogous structure

A structure that is similar in structure, but not necessarily function, between related organisms

• Adaptation

• Vestigial structure

• Homologous structure

• Analogous structure

A structure that is similar in structure and function between different organisms

• Adaptation

• Vestigial structure

• Homologous structure

• Analogous structure

The movement of a species into a new area

• Isolation

• Extinct

• Divergence

• Convergence

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A species that exists in the fossil record but has no more living members

• Isolation

• Extinct

• Divergence

• Convergence

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