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Evolution 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |