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The similarity of structures between species that are not closely related (bug and bird wings)

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Analogy

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The formation of a new species as a result of an ancestral population being separated by a geographic barrier

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Allopatric speciation

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A two part Latinized name of a species

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Binomial

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The definition of a species as a population or group of populations that can interbreed

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Biological species concept

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An ancestral species and all its descendants - one branch on evolutionary tree

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Clade

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The study of evolutionary history through clades

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Cladistics

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The taxonomic category above order

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Class

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Adaptive changes resulting in analogous similarities among organisms. Species from different lineages look similar

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Convergent evolution

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A taxonomy level above kingdom. Includes Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya

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Domain

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Evolutionary developmental biology- studies evolution of developmental processes

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Evi-Devo

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Taxonomic level above genus

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Family

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Taxonomic level above species

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Genus

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Time scale established by geologists that reflects a sequence of geologic periods

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Geologic time scale

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Taxonomic level above phylum

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Kingdom

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Evolutionary change on a big scale

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Macroevolution

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Taxonomic level above family

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Order

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The retention in the adult features that were juvenile in ancestral species

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Paedomorphosis

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A branching diagram that represents hypothesis about evolutionary relationships between organisms

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Phylogeny tree

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Taxonomic level above class

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Phylum

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A reproductive barrier forming when species cross-reproduce and produce sterile offspring

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Postzygotic barrier

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A reproductive barrier that impedes animals ability to fertilize eggs

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Prezygotic barrier

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The term describing long periods of little change, or equilibrium, punctuated by Brooke periods of speciation

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Punctuated equilibrium

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A method for determining the age of fossils and rocks from the rate of decay of the radioactive isotopes

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Radiometric dating

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Anything that prevents individuals are closely related species from interbreeding, even when populations of the two species live together

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Reproductive barrier

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The formation of new species

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Speciation

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A group of populations whose members have similar anatomical characteristics and have the ability to interbreed

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Species

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The formation of a new species as a result of a change that produces a reproductive barrier between the change populations

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Sympatric speciation

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A discipline of biology that focuses on classifying organisms and determining their evolutionary relationships

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Systematics

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The branch of biology concerned with identifying, naming, and classifying species

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Taxonomy

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A system of taxonomic classification based on the three basic groups: bacteria, Archaea, and eukarya

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Three domains system

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