heritable characteristics that increase an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in an environment

term used to refer to chromosomes in which one set comes from the male parent and one set from the the female parent

parts that share a common function

study of a developing stage of a multicellular organism

the evolutionary history of a lineage

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Hersey Bio Evolution

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Question	Answer
Evolution	change over time
adaptation	heritable characteristics that increase an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in an environment
homologous	term used to refer to chromosomes in which one set comes from the male parent and one set from the the female parent
analogous	parts that share a common function
embryology	study of a developing stage of a multicellular organism
phylogeny	the evolutionary history of a lineage