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Chapter 6 vocab
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fossil record | all the fossils made up on earth. |
| mold | the impression of an organism in a rock |
| cast | a fossil copy of an organism in a rock |
| trace fossil | the preserved evidence of an organism might walk across the mud. |
| geologic time scale | a chart that divides Earth's history into different time units. |
| biological evolution | the change over time in population of related organisms |
| naturalist | a person who study's plants and animals by observing them. |
| variation | a slight difference in an inherited trait of individual members of an species |
| natural selection | the process by which population of an organism |
| adaption | an inherited trait that increases. |
| camouflage | an adaption that enables a species to blend in with its enviroment |
| mimicry | camouflage and mimicry are species. |
| selectives breeding | the breeding of organism for desired characteristics. |
| comparative anatommy | the study of similarities and differences among structures of living species |
| homologous stuctures | body parts of parts of organisms that are similarlarites and differences |