Biology Evolution Vocab

the change in heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations

• evolution

• change

• Natural Selection

• Biogeography

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the preserved remains of plants and animals whose bodies were buried in sediments, such as sand and mud, under ancient seas, lakes and rivers

• fossils

• bones

• fitness

• Survival of the fittest

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by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.

• Natural Selection

• Artificial selection

• Biogeography

• Homologous structure

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dynamic evolutionary process of natural selection that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness

• Fitness

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

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quantitative representation of individual reproductive success

• fitness

• adaptation

• evolution

• homologous structure

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differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype

• Natural Selection

• Artificial selection

• Biogeography

• Phenotype

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distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time

• Biogeography

• Biology

• Evolution

• Adaptation

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similar physical features in organisms that share a common ancestor, but the features serve completely different functions

• Homologous Structure

• Homozogous

• Biogeography

• Vestigial Structure

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features of different species that are similar in function but not necessarily in structure and which do not derive from a common ancestral feature

• Analogous Structure

• Homologous Structure

• Biogeography

• Vestigial structure

a feature that a species inherited from an ancestor but that is now less elaborate and functional than in the ancestor

• Vesigial Structure

• Analogous Structure

• Homologous structure

• Evolution

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