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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fossil Record | Is made up of all the fossils ever discovered o Earth |
| Mold | The impression of an organism in a rock |
| Cast | Is a fossil copy of an organism in a rock |
| Trace Fossil | Is the preserved evidence of the activity of an organism |
| Geologic Time Scale | Is a chart that divides Earth's history into differennt time units |
| Extinction | Occurs when the last individual organism of a species dies |
| Biological Evolution | The change over time in populations of related organism |
| Naturalist | A person who studies plants and animals by observing them |
| Variation | A slight difference in an inherited trait of individual members of a species |
| Natural Selection | The process by which populations of organisms with variations that help them survive in their environments live longers, compete better, and reproduce more than those that don't have the variation |
| Adaption | An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing in its environment |
| Camouflage | An adaptation that enables a species to blend in with its enviroment |
| Mimicry | The resemblance of one species to another species |
| Selective Breeding | Like many domestic plants and animals produced from selective breeding |
| Comparative Anatomy | The study of similarities and differences among structures of living species |
| Homologous Strucutures | Body parts of organisms that are similar in structure and position but different in function |
| Analogous Structures | Body parts that perform a similar function but differ in structure |
| Vestigial Structures | Body parts that have lost their original function through evolution |
| Embryology | The science of the development ofembryos from fertilization to birth |