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Tancin Evolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| evolution | process that explains why species change over time |
| acquired traits | traits developed during one's lifetime |
| inherited traits | are features that are passed from one generation to the next |
| natural selection | explains how organisms in a population develop traits that allow them to survive and reproduce. These traits will most likely be passed to offspring |
| adaptations | traits that allow an organism to survive and reproduce in its environments |
| What was the name of Darwin's ship? | HMS Beagle |
| What makes an animal harder to see in nature? | camouflage |
| selective breeding | selectively picking the best traits of an organism and breeding those organisms |
| homologous | structures that look the same but play a different role- example: human arm and cat arm, they may look the same, but many of the cat's bones are smaller allowing the cat to leap and pounce |
| Evidence of evolution | comparative anatomy, fossils, embryology, molecular biology |