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Chapter 6.4 vocab
Marine Biology Fundamentals of Biology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Theory of evolution | The unifying theory of biology that posits that all living organisms evolved from a common ancestor. |
| natural selection | A mechanism of evolutionary change that results when individuals that are better adapted than others in meeting the challenges of the environment produce more offspring. |
| biological species concept | The definition of species as a population of organisms that have common characteristics and can successfully breed with each other. |
| reproductive isolation | The inability of separate populations to interbreed. |
| species epithet | the species name of an organism. |
| genus | a group of similar species |
| binomial nomenclature | a system of naming species using two names, the first of which refers to the genus. |
| phylogeny | The evolutionary history of a species or other taxon. |
| phylogenetics | the study of evolutionary relationships. |
| taxon | (pl.taxa) a group of organisms that share a common ancestry |