Evolution

Characteristics or attributes of an organism that are expressed by genes.

• Extinction

• Genetic Variation

• Traits

A group of individuals of the same species living & interbreeding within a given area.

• Fossil Record

• Populations

• Diversity

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Process through which populations of living organisms adapt & change.

• Diversity

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Variation

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The complete disappearance of a species from Earth.

• Diversity

• Extinction

• Populations

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The complete disappearance of a species from Earth.

• Diversity

• Extinction

• Populations

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What is an inherited characteristic that helps organisms survive?

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

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The process where organisms best fit for the environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• natural selection

• adaptation

• hibernation

• selective breeding

• hybridization

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A slight difference in an inherited trait between individual members of the same species.

• variations
• adapatations
• homologous structures
• analogous structures

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The process in which an animal cannot reproduce any more and dies out is known as _________________________.

• Speciation

• Extinction

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

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When you form a new species from a pre-existing one it is called

• divergent evolution

• extinction

• speciation

• gradualism

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