Environment/ Change Over Time
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| What is the study of similarities and differences in living species called? | Comparative anatomy
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| What are vestigial structures? | body parts that lost their original function through evolution
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| What is embryology | The science of the development of embryos from fertilization to birth
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| What are analogous structures? | body parts that perform a similar function but are different in structure
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| What do you call body parts of that are similar in structure and position but have a different function? | homologous structures
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| What is a fossil record? | record of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth
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| What is an impression of a an organism in a rock called? | mold
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| What do you call the preserved evidence of the activity of an organism? | trace fossil (may show footsteps)
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| What is a geological time scale? | a chart that divides Earth's history into different time units
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| What is it called when the last of an organism dies? | extinction
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| What is biological evolution? | This is the change in populations of related organisms over time
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| What is a cast? | a fossil copy of an organism in a rock
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| What is a naturalist? | a person who studies plants and animals by observing them
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| What do you call breeding an organism for a desired trait or characteristic? | selective breeding
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| What is camouflage? | an adaption that allows a species to blend into its enviornment
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| What is natural selection? | the way in which organisms have variations to survive in their environments to live longer and reproduce more than those that do not have variations
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| What is adaptation? | a trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing
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| What is evolution? | a change in the hereditary features over time
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| What is absolute dating? | very specific and gives more exact times
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| What is relative dating? | just puts things in order of how they happened
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