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Module 9: Vocab
Vocabulary for Apalogia
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Immutability of a species | The idea that each individual species on the planet was specially created by God and could never fundamentally change |
| Microevolution | The theory that natural selection can, over time, take and organism and transform it into a more specialized species of that organism |
| Macroevolution | The hypothesis that processes similar to those at work in microevolution can, over eons of time, transform an organism into a completely different kind of organism |
| Strata | Distinct layers of rock |
| Fossils | preserved remains of one-living organisms |
| Paleontology | The study of Fossils |
| Structural Homology | The study of similar structures in different species |