Evolution Vocabulary

A change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment.

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Coevolution

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Molecular Evidence is found in _________.

• Molecules

• RNA

• DNA

• bones

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Biogeography is the way species evolve _______.

• Differently

• Similarly

• Neither

• Both

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A change in gene frequency within a population over time.

• Coevolution

• Natural Selection

• Species

• Evolution

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Differences in DNA.

• Speciation

• Molecular Evidence

• Variation

• Embryology

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Structures with reduced size and lesser function or no function.

• Homologous Structures

• Analogous Structures

• Vestigial Structures

Same Structures. Different functions.

• Homologous Structures

• Vestigial Structures

• Analogous Structures

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Same functions. Different Structures.

• Vestigial Structures

• Homologous Structures

• Analogous Structures

Unrelated species become more and more similar as they adapt to the same kind of environment.

• Divergent Evolution

• Convergent Evolution

• Coevolution

A process of 2 or more species becoming more and more dissimilar.

• Convergent Evolution

• Divergent Evolution

• Coevolution