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Chapter 16 bioterms
Chapter 16 bioterms
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Biology
9th Grade
04/21/2015

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Adaptation is a heritable characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in an environment.
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Analogous structure are body parts that share a common function, but not structure.
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Artificial selection is selective breeding of plants and animals to promote the occurrence of desirable traits in offspring.
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Biogeography is the study of past and present distribution of organisms.
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Evolution is change over time; the process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.
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Fitness is how well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment.
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Fossil is preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms.
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Homologous structure are structures that are similar in different species of common ancestry.
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Natural selection is the process by which organisms that are most suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest.
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Vestigial Structure is a structure that is inherited from ancestors but has lost much or all of its original function.
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