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Evolution 2
Question | Answer |
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Overproduction | populations produce more offspring than can survive. |
Survival of the Fittest | individuals best adapted to the environment live to reproduce |
Variation | differences |
best adapted | individuals with variations that enable them to live and reproduce. |
Common Ancestor | At some point in the past what two species must have shared if they have similar traits, DNA, or proteins. |
allele | another word for gene |
extinction | when all the members of a species have died |
threatened | when there are few members of a species left and there is little genetic variation in the population |
biodiversity | a measure of the amount of different life found in an ecosystem |
species | group of organisms that can reproduce fertile offspring |