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Biology- unit 6
science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adaptation | a trait that a species develops over generations which helps it to survive |
| bias | a preference that can hinder impartial judgement |
| Charles Darwin | the biologist who developed and offered evidence of the theory of natural selection—he showed how living things had changed over long periods of time |
| evolution | changes in living things over time |
| extinct | describes a species that no longer has any living representatives |
| fittest | best suited to survive in its environment |
| fossil | remains of organisms that lived in the past |
| gene | unit of DNA that determines a specific trait in the organism; genes come in pairs |
| mutation | a change in genes that causes a change in a particular trait |
| natural selection | the survival of organisms best fit for the environment |