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Evolution
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Biology
10th Grade
02/04/2011

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Natural Selection
Definition
Animals that are adapted to their environment are most likely to survive than those who are not adapted to that environment.
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Common Ancestor
Definition
a group of organisms that has a common descent from a common ancestor
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Evolution
Definition
a process in which something passes to a different stage. change in inherited traits of populations through generations. 
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Reproduce
Definition
to have offspring or produce more individuals
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Diversity
Definition
many and different
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Genes
Definition
inherited things most likely from family. like a disease, or features
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Branching tree
Definition
a diagram that shows how scientists think different groups of organisms were formed.
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Fossils
Definition
remains of animals, plants, and other organisms in the past.
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Selective breeding
Definition
process of developing a breed over time.
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Homologous Structures
Definition
any similarity between charteristics of organisms.
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Variation
Definition
an instance of change.
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Competition
Definition
interaction between organisms or species.
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Vestigial organs
Definition
descibes homologous characters of organisms that lost original functions through evolution
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Extinction
Definition
no longer active
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Scientific Theory
Definition
a theory that explains scientific observations
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Adaptation
Definition
a population becomes better suites to its habit
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Charles Darwin
Definition
He formed the theory of evolution by natural selection
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Jean Baptise Lamarck
Definition
He had the idea that evolution occured and proceded with natural laws
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Protein structure
Definition
they are in all biological organisms, and are made of of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur.
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Early development
Definition
it's when things were formed early
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DNA
Definition
it does the transmission of genetic information.
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Classification
Definition
arranging things into groups by class of category
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protists
Definition
free-living organisms with diverse nutritional modes.
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Fungi
Definition
it's a member of a large group in the kingdom that includes yeast and mold
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Plants
Definition
living organisms belonging to the kingdom plantae
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Animals
Definition
a major group of mostly multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom animalia
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Kingdom
Definition
 domain in which something is dominant
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Phylum
Definition
same as division
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Class
Definition
the types and kinds of things
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