Biology evolution vocab

the best scientific explanation for both the unity and diversity of life

• evolution

• Theory of Evolution

• fossil record

• allele

change in allele frequency over time; process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms(decent with modification)

• theory of evolution

• fitness

• gene pool

• evolution

number of times an allele occurs in a gene pool

• natural selection

• fitness

• gene flows

• allele frequency

natures way of selecting the best a particular traits for an environment; also called survival of the fittest

• natural selection

• embryology

• fossil record

• mutation

the differences in phenotypes of traits within a single species

• variation

• fossil record

• extinction

• analogous

group of similar organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring

• alelle

• species

• adaption

• gene flow

the formation of a new species over time

• fitness

• mitosis

• speciation

• genetic drift

a group of organisms share common descent if they have a common ancestor

• evolution

• common ancestry

• cladogram

• mutation

the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time; evidence of common ancestry

• allele

• natural selection

• speciation

• biogeography

the geological record of organisms on earth that have been preserved in the rock in a chronological order (oldest on bottom); evidence of common ancestry

• theory of evolution

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• mutation

• fossil record