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Vocab Flash Card
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a species? | a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. |
| What is artificial selection? | When nature provided the variation,and humans selected those variations that they found usefuly. |
| What is meant by "struggle for existence? | Means that members of each species compete regularly to obtain food,living space, and other ties of life. |
| How did Darwin use the term "fitness" | To determine the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in its specific environment. |
| What is an adaptation to evolutionists? | Is any inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival. |
| What is meant by survival of the fittest? | Individuals that are better suited to their environment-survive and reproduce most successfully. |
| What is natural selection? | Results in changes in the inherited characteristics of a population./ |
| How does descent with modification work? | Species descended,changing overtime from other species. |
| What is common descent as used in this chapter? | Living and extinct species derived from common ancestors. |
| What is a homologous structure? | similar physical features in organisms that share a common ancestor. |
| What is a vestigial organ? | When the organs of many animals are so reduced in size that they are vestiges,or traces,of homologous organs in other species. |