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Change over time; the process by which modern organisms descended from ancient ones.
Organisms with adaptations that allow that organism to be more fit than others will be selected by nature to survive.
A characteristic that gives an organism a selective advantage in its environment.
Ability to breed successfully and produce healthy offspring.
The idea that all organisms have evolved from a common ancestor.
Differences in organisms within the same species that occur naturally such as color of fur, feathers, eyes, and skin.
Because more offspring are born than can survive, there is competition for food, shelter, and mates;resources are limited so organisms struggle to survive.
The largest division of geologic time; the time between Precambrian time and the present are divided into three eras:Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.
Eras are subdivided into periods, which range in length from tens of thousands of years to less than 2 million years.
The idea that a small prokaryote was engulfed by and became a permanent stucture of a larger one.
Tiny per-cells with selectively permeable membranes that could store and release energy.
Scientists who study fossils.
Preserved remains of ancient organisms.
An organism that has died out;none of its species has survived.
Fossils of organisms that only survived for relatively short periods of time and can be used to determine the age of other fossils found in the same layer of rock.
The process of using the law of superposition along with index fossil to determine the age of a fossil.
The length of time required for half of a radioactive sample to decay.
By determining the amount of carbon-14 leftin a fossil and knowing its half-life;scientists can use a mathematical calculation to determine the fossil's age.
Is the evolution of a new species that occurs when two similar reproducing beings evolve to become too dissimilar to share genetic information or produce viable offspring.
A population of animals,plants, or organisms that are seperated from exchanging genetic material with other organisms of the same species.
Would be things that physically or behaviorally keep male and female sex cells from uniting.
Favors the extreme phenotypes.
Favors the intermediate phenotypes.
Favors one extreme or the other
Large scale evolutionary changes that take long periods of time.
A process whereby two very different species evolve in response to each other over time
When humans choose which organisms are to be bred or crossed with others to create an organism with more desirable traits.
A change in the code of an organism's DNA; it can result in variations between individuals in a population.
The set of all genes for a species.

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