Evolution Vocab

An inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival

• adaptation
• fitness
• variation
• evolution

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Change in a kind of organism over time

• adaptation
• evolution
• variation
• fitness

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Process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully

• adaptation
• evolution
• natural selection
• fitness

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Formation of a new species

• natural selection
• evolution
• speciation
• variation

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Group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring

• population
• group
• species
• fitness

Different traits within a population

• speciation
• fitness
• natural selection
• variation

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like a timeline of Earth

• law of superposition

• population

• adaptation

• geologic time scale

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The history of life on Earth as documented by the fossils collected so far.

• geologic time scale

• law of superposition

• fossil record

• mass extinction

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Whtie fur is a(n)

• adaptation

• population

• evolution

• natural selection

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when HUMANS select organisms to reproduce

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• population

• adaptation

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