Evolution

The process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms

• fossil

• evolution

• fitness

• natural selection

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How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment

• natural selection

• fitness

• adaptation

• evolution

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Heritable characteristics that increase an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in an environment

• fitness

• adaptation

• vestigial structure

• analogous structure

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Process by which organisms that are most suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully

• natural selection

• evolution

• biogeography

• fitness

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Preserved remains of, or traces of, ancient organisms

• artifacts
• minerals
• remnants
• fossils

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Study of past and present distribution of organisms

• Biogeography
• Genetics
• Paleontology
• Ecology

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Body parts that share a common function, but not an evolutionary history

• Homologous structures
• Vestigial organs
• Adaptive traits
• Analogous structures

Structures that are similar in different species that share a common ancestor

• Analogous structures
• Convergent traits
• Homologous structures
• Vestigial structures

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Structure that is inherited from ancestors but which has lost much or all of its original function.

• Ancestral feature
• Vestigial structure
• Analogous structure

• Homologous structure

Formation of a new species

• Evolution
• Hybridization
• Adaptation
• Speciation

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