Evolution Vocab
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- Q1heritable change in characteristics in a population from one generation to the nextevolution30s
- Q2describes process of evolutiondescent with modification30s
- Q3mechanism for descent with modificationnatural selection30s
- Q4trait that makes an individual environmentadaptation30s
- Q5measure of an individuals hereditary contribution next generationfitness30s
- Q6remains or traces of long dead organismsfossils30s
- Q7younger rocks lie above older rocks if the layers have not disturbedprinciple of superposition30s
- Q8study of the locations of organisms around the environmentsbiogeography30s
- Q9similar characteristic inherited from ancestor (same structure same function)homologous structures30s
- Q10similar structures not inherited (different structure same function)analogous structure30s
- Q11inherited but unused structurevestigial structures30s
- Q12process by which different species evolve similar traitsconvergent evolution30s
- Q13process by which descendants of a single ancestor diversify into species that each fit different parts of the environmentdivergent evolution30s
- Q14selective breeding of organisms for specific desirable characteristicsartificial selection30s
- Q15species have evolved adaptations to each others influence usually making relationship mutually beneficialcoevolution30s