Vocab

Question 0

Natural selection

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Process in nature that results in the most for organisms producing offspring

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Evolution

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Process where modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms

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Fossil

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Preserved remains or evidence of an ancient organism

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Artificial selection

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Human control of those organisms with desirable traits to produce offspring

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Speciation

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New species evolving from old ones

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Reproductive isolation

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Deprecation of populations so that they don’t interbreed to produce fertile offspring

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Adaptive radiation

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One species gives rise to many species

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Divergent evolution

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Same as adaptive radiation

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Convergent evolution

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Adaptive radiation among different organisms producing species that are similar with appearance and behavior

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Homologous structure

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Develops From same body parts but meet different needs

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Analogous structure

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Structures that are similar in appearance and function but have different origins

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Radioactive dating

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Using radioactive elements to determine age of fossils

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Radioactive decay

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Half life of radioactive elements

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Common descent

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Species descended from common ancestors

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Vestigual organ

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Reduced in size or function