Evolution Vocabulary Review

Structures or behaviors of a species which helps it to become better fitted to survive and reproduce in its environment

• Fossils

• Adaptations

• Mimicry

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Differences within a species (fur color, eye color, beak shape, etc.)

• Variations

• Evolution

• Survival of the fittest

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Theory that organisms have grown and developed from past organisms.

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

• Diversity

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No longer in existence

• Fossil Record

• Evidence

• Extinct

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The difference in DNA among individuals

• Diversity

• Genetic variation

• Adaptations

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The process where organisms with favorable traits are most likely to reproduce.

• Evidence

• Theory

• Natural Selection

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The continued existence of organisms which are best adapted to their environment

• Theory

• Probability of Survival

• Survival of the fittest

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Any change in the DNA of an organism.

• Variation

• Fossil

• Mutation

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Selection by humans for breeding of useful traits from the natural variation among different organisms.

• Artificial Selection

• Natural Selection

• Directional Selection

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The process by which species of living things can undergo modification over time, with such change sometimes resulting in the formation of new, separate species.

• Common descent with modification

• Natural Selection

• Artificial selection

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