Evolution Flashcards

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What is an adaptation

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An inherited characteristic of an organisms, increases the likelihood of survival and reproduction in its environment

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Charles Darwin’s idea of living things

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Natural selection

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Jean Baptiste Lamarck idea of living things

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Living things evolved in a continuously upward direction, species didn’t die out in extinctions.

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Alfred Russel Wallace ideas of living things.

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Evolution by natural selection.

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What is natural selection

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