8.L.4

Any genetic change in a population that is inherited over several generations

A theory that states the Earth’s crust is made up of a number of plates which move over a liquid crust that get created and destroyed over time

The genetic contribution of an individual to the next generation’s gene pool

The branch of Science concerned with the bodily structures of humans, animals, and other living organisms

Two hundred million years ago (Ma), research suggests that all the continents were one large mass

How biologists group organisms, rooted in works by Aristotle

Remnants of structures that were once functional in ancestor, (now reduced in size and have little or no function)

The variety of life in the world, or in a specific habitat or ecosystem

Structures that have different mature forms but develop from the same embryonic tissue

Any fossil which gives us information about a transition from one species to another; helps support the Theory of Evolution