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Genetic Drift   An evolutionary mechanism in which allele frequencies change in a population  
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Recombination   Another source of heritable variation that occurs for two main reasons: independent assortment and crossing-over.  
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Gene Flow   When the genes of one population flow to a different population.  
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Fossils   What are preserved traces or remains of living organisms for the past  
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Vestigial Structures   Structures on an organism are degenerated and, or are nonfunctional structures  
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Homologous Structures   Structures that are similar in related organisms which were inherited from a common ancestor  
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Analogous Structures   Structure that is the same in function but different in structure, and evolved independently  
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Molecular Homologies   Evidence of evolution that has similar stretch of genetic material and/or proteins between different organisms  
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Biogeography   This is the study of the distribution of species, organisms, and ecosystems through geological time  
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Stabilizing Selection   most common form of natural selection in which organisms with extreme expressions of a trait are removed. Can be expressed on a graph  
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Directional Selection   Shift of population toward an extreme version of a beneficial trait. Can be expressed on a graph  
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Disruptive Selection   Process by which individuals with average traits are removed, creating two populations with extreme traits. Can be expressed on a graph.  
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Natural Selection   Process that results in the adaptation of an organism to its environment by means of selectively reproducing changes in its genotype.  
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Evolution   The process through which species change over time.  
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Species   Groups of actually or potentially interbreeding populations, which are reproductively isolated from other such groups.  
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Adaptation   Process by which an animal or plant species becomes fitted to its environment; it is the result of natural selection's acting upon heritable variation.  
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Taxonomy   A hierarchical system for classifying and identifying organism  
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Common Ancestor   The most recent ancestral form or species from which two different species evolved.  
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