Evolution Vocabulary Review

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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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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No longer in existence

• Fossil Record

• Evidence

• Extinct

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

• cladogram

• common ancestor

• comparative embryology

• evolution

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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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Structures that have no apparent function and appear to be residual parts from a past ancestor (example: appendix in humans)

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

• vestigial structures

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Structures that have similar functions but different origins (ex. 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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The most recent species of organisms from which a set of organisms are derived from (some scientists use comparative embryology and homologous structures to try to prove this).

• cladogram

• common ancestor

• comparative embryology

• evolution

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Used as evidence to show that organisms had a common ancestor. It compares embryo development across species.

• cladogram

• common ancestor

• comparative embryology

• evolution

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