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01/13/2015

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Term
Evolution
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the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
 
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adaptation
Definition
The action or process of being adapted
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Variation
Definition
A change or difference in condition
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Charles Darwin
Definition
Founder of evolution
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Natural salectoon
Definition
  1. the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process that brings about evolution.
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Survival of the fittest
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  1. the continued existence of organisms that are best adapted to their environment, with the extinction of others, as a concept in the Darwinian theory of evolution.
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Alleles
Definition
one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.
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punnet square
Definition
a table or graph that shows what genes the offspring will inherit
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Genes
Definition
a unit of heredity that is transferred From a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
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