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| A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. |
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| If two organisms of different species breed, their offspring will be fertile or sterile? |
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| What was Jean Baptiste De Lamarck's Acquired inheritance theory? |
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| It was an early theory where organisms could acquire and pass traits after birth |
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| What was the problem in the acquired inheritance theory? |
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| Traits acquired after fertilization cannot be passed to offspring. |
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| Are older or newer fossils less complex? |
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| Based on the Law of Superposition, are newer fossils usually at the top strata or the bottom strata? |
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| What is uniformitarianism? |
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| The belief that the geologic processes that shape earth are uniform |
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| Charles Darwin came up with the revolutionary idea of? |
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| What is natural selection? |
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| The process where organisms with favorable traits survive and reproduce |
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| Whether an organism's variation is favorable or not is based on what? |
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| Variations related to adaptations because? |
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| Variations, or inherited traits that make an individual different from others, can be adaptions, or variations that increase the chance of survival. |
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| True or false. Genetic variation increases chances of some surviving the changing environments |
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| What are the two main causes of genetic variation? |
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| Mutagens and recombination |
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