Evolution

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Members if each species compete to obtain food living space and necessities of life

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Struggle for existence

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Change in a kind of organism

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Evolution

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Ability of an individual to survive in reproduce in its environment

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Fitness

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Any inherited characteristics that increases and organisms chance of survival

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Adaptation

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Process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; otherwise known as natural selection

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Survival of the fittest

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Principle that each living species has descended with changes from other species overtime

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Descent with modification

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All things are derived from common ancestors

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Common descent

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Structures that have different mature forms the different organisms but develop from the same embryonic tissues

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Homologous structures

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Structures with similar functions that did not come from sharing a common ancestor, but from sharing a similar environment

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Analogous structures

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A organ that serves no useful function in an organism

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Vestigial organ

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Combined genetic information of all the members of a particular population

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Gene pool

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Form of natural selection in which the entire curve moves; occurs when individuals at one end of the distribution curve have higher fitness than individuals in the middle or at the other end of the curb

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Directional selection

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The type of selection which occurs when individuals near the center of the curve are favored

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Stabilizing selection

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Form of natural selection in which a single curves with into two; occurs when individuals at the upper and lower inns up a normal distribution curve have higher fitness than those need the center of the curve

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Disruptive selection

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A random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations

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Genetic drift

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Situation in which allele frequencies remain constant

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Genetic equilibrium

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Separation of species or population so that they cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring

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Reproductive isolation

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Form of reproduction isolation in which two populations have differences in courtship rituals or other types of behavior that prevent them from interbreeding

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Behavioral isolation

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Form of reproductive isolation in which two populations are separated physically by geographic areas such as rivers mountains or stretches of water

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Geographic isolation

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Form of reproductive isolation in which two populations reproduce at different times

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Temporel isolation

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Information about past life, including the structure of organisms, what the eight, what ate them, in what environment they lived, in the order in which they lived

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Fossil record

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Method of determining the age of a fossil by comparing its placement with that of fossils in other layers of rock

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Relative dating

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A recognizable fossil other an organism that lived for short period of time, but over a wide geographic range; used to compare the relative ages of fossils

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Index fossils

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Length of time for half of the radioactive Adams in a sample to decay

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Half life

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Using the half-life of an isotope to find the absolute age of a fossil

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Radioactive dating

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When multiple species permanently die out during the same time frame

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Mass extinction

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Process by which a single species or small group of species evolves into several different forms that live in different ways; rapid growth in the diversity of a group of organisms

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Adaptive radiation

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Process by which unrelated organisms independently evolve similarities when adapting to similar environments

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Convergent evolution

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Process by which two species evolve in response to changes in each other

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Convolution

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A pattern of evolution where Long staple periods are interrupted by brief periods of rapid change

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Punctuated equilibrium

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Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms

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Cladogram

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A key used in the identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters

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Dichotomous key