Evolution Vocabulary

Theory that species evolve during short periods of rapid change

• Gradualism

• Punctuated Equalibria

• Preserved Remains

• Natural Selection

Group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce

• variations

• species

• molds

• casts

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Historical remnants of a structure that was thought to have greater importance in its’ ancestors, but has little importance now

• homologous structures

• petrified fossil

• vestigial structures

• preserved remains

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Millions of fossils that scientists have collected

• scientific theory

• fossil record

• vestigial structure

• natural selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

• vestigial structures

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations.  It relies on the process of natural selection.

• evolution

• common ancestor

• comparative embryology

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

When very different animals have bones that appear very similar in form or function and seem to be related.  It is used to try to prove there are common ancestors.

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

• vestigial structures

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Structures that have no apparent function and appear to be residual parts from a past ancestor

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

• vestigial structures

An example of this is: Wings of a moth and wings of a bird are both for flying but they are entirely different structures

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

• vestigial structures

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

• evolution

• common ancestor

• comparative embryology

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-4