What is adaptation? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Behavioral
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adaptations, structural adaptations, Biochemical adaptations,
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Natural Selection - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔is a process in which
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organisms with certain inherited characteristics are more likely to
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survive and reproduce than are individuals with other
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characteristics.
Population - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a group of individuals of the
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same species living in the same place at the same time
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Evolution - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the genetic composition of a
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population changes over time. |\ |\ |\
Natural selection leads to - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A population
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changing over generations, and evolutionary adaptation.
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The Origin of Species challenged.. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The
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notion that earth was relatively young and populated by
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unrelated species |\
The Greek philosopher Aristotle held the belief.. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔that species are fixed and do not evolve.
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, Two points from the Origin of Species - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Organisms inhabiting Earth today descended from ancestral |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
species; Natural selection was the mechanism for descent with
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modification
Fossils - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Imprints or remains of organisms
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that lived in the past, often found in sedimentary rocks
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Fossil record - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Is the ordered sequence of
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fossils as they appear in rock layers; reveals the appearance of
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organisms in a historical sequence; fits the molecular and cellular
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evidence that prokaryotes are the ancestors of all life
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Paleontologists - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Are scientists that study |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
fossils
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Biogeography - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the study of the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
geographic distribution of species that first suggested to Darwin
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that today's organisms evolved from ancestral forms.
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Comparitive Anatomy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Is the comparison |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
of body structure between different species; confirms that
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evolution is a remodeling process |\ |\ |\ |\
Homology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The similarity in structures
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due to common ancestry
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Illustrated by the remodeling of the pattern of bones forming the
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forelimbs of mammals |\ |\