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What is absolute dating?

A

Determine age through radio metric dating

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Example of macroevolution

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Wolves and dogs

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Provide an example of microevolution

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Black and white humans

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Evolutionary fitness

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One must be able to survive and reproduce.

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What is divergent evolution?

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Animals are closely related but have accumulated differences

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What is convergent evolution?

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Animals not closely related but independently evolve and have similar traits

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Cladogram?

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Diagram used to show relations between animals

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Theory

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System of ideas intended to explain something

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Vestigial?

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A trait with reduced function

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Analogous

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Trait shared but not related

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Homologous

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Trait grown together due to common ancestry

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If a rock is only found in one place, what’s bad about it?

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It’s not well distributed

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What is relative dating?

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To determine age of fossil by other fossils which the age is known

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