Change over time (Evolution)

Any trait or behavior that increases an organism's likelihood of survival

• Mutation

• Adaptation

• Allele

• Fitness

in a population where organisms that are better adapted for the environment are more likely to survive nature's forces than those varieties that are not well suited for the environment

• Natural Selection

• Speciation

• fitness

• adaptation

any change in the DNA sequence; produces new adaptations in a population

• convergent evolution

• allele

• divergent evolution

• mutation

the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce fertile offspring

• Adaptation

• Fitness

• Evolution

• Speciation

comparing the similarities in embryonic development in organisms with the idea that the more similar development occurs between two species the more closely related they have

• common ancestory

• fossil record

• artificial selection

• fitness

comparing similarities in body structure to show evolutionary relationship

• homologous structures

• adaptation

• analogous structures

• vestigial structures

using the remains of living organisms to document evolutionary relationship

• analogous structures

• bichemistry

• comparative anatomy

• fossil record

process of creating a new species

• coevolution

• synthesis

• isolation

• speciation

Members of a population that are morphologically (physically) similar and can reproduce to make fertile offspring.

• adaptation

• species

• coevolution

• selective breeding

isolation of a population based on a physical barrier where two different populations occupy different habitats and therefore will not cross paths to mate

• geographic isolation

• behavioral isolation

• temporal isolation

• stabilizing isolation