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Unit six
Science Unit 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Evolution | the process in which inherited characteristics within a population change over generation such that new species sometimes arise |
| Artificial selection | the human practice of breeding animals or plants that have certain desire traits |
| Natural selection | the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully that less well adapted individuals do. |
| Variation | the occurrence of hereditary or nonhereditary differences between different individuals of a population |
| mutation | a charge in the nucleotide-base sequence of a gene or DNA molecule |
| Adaptation | a characteristic that improves an individuals ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment. |
| Extinction | the death of every member of a species |
| Fossil | the trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock |
| Fossil record | the history of life in the geologic past as indicated by the traces or remains of living things |
| Geologic time scale | the standard method used to divide Earth's long natural history into mangeable parts. |