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Darwin Harrison
vocab about Charles Darwin
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| speies | A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring |
| fossil | Preserved remains or trace of an organism that lived in the past |
| adaptaion | A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce |
| theory | A well-tested concept that explains many observations |
| overproduction | An effect cause by species producing more offspring than can survive |
| variations | Any differences in individual of the same species |
| competition | Organisms competing for resources |
| natural selection | A process in which individuals with traits that help them survive in their environment are able to sirvive and reproduce |
| Charel Darwin's theory | Theory of evolution by natural selection |
| Charles Darwin's famous book on evolution | On the origin of species |
| selective breeding | Choosing certain individual of a species to breed in order to get a particular trait passed on to the offspring |