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Adaptation and natural selection

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  • Q1
    A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.
    Natural Selection
    30s
  • Q2
    Change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.
    Evolution
    30s
  • Q3
    A process typically caused by the genetic isolation from a main population resulting in a new genetically distinct species.
    Speciation
    30s
  • Q4
    English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
    Charles Darwin
    30s
  • Q5
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    -Evolution by "natural selection" (the survival of fittest) wrote On the Origin of Species
    30s
  • Q6
    5 yr trip to map the coast of S. America, Darwin studied a wide variety of plants and amimals
    HMS Beagle
    30s
  • Q7
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    Darwin's ship
    30s
  • Q8
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    the name of Darwin's boat for his 5 year voyage around the world
    30s
  • Q9
    An evolutionary mechanism by which traits that increase the ability of individuals to attract or acquire mates appear with increasing frequency in a population; selection in which a mate is chosen on the basis of a particular trait or traits
    Sexual Selection
    30s
  • Q10
    Selection by humans for breeding of useful traits from the natural variation among different organisms
    Artificial Selection
    30s
  • Q11
    A change of a gene or DNA molecule
    Mutation
    30s
  • Q12
    any change to the genetic code that results in noticeable physiological changes that are of benefit to the organism
    Beneficial Mutation
    30s
  • Q13
    is a mutation that decreases the fitness of the organism.
    Harmful Mutation
    30s
  • Q14
    The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next
    Heredity
    30s
  • Q15
    Preserved remains of once-living organisms
    Fossils
    30s

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