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evolution   change over time; the process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms  
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fossil   preserved remains or traces of ancient organsims  
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artificial selection   selective breeding of plants and animals to promote the occurrence of desirable traits in offspring  
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adaptation   heritable characteristics that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in an environment  
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fitness   how well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment study of past and present distribution of organisms  
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biogeography   study of past and present distribution of organisms  
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homologous structure   similar structures that are shared by related species that have been inherited from a common ancestor  
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analogous structure   body parts that share a common function, but not structure  
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vestigial structure   structure that is inherited from ancestors but has lost much or all of its original function  
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gene pool   all the genes, including all alleles for each gene, that are present in a population  
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allele frequency   number of times that an allele occurs in a gene pool as a percentage of the total occurrence of all alleles for that gene pool  
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polygenic trait   trait controlled by two or more genes  
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single-gene trait   trait controlled by one gene that has two alleles  
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directional selection   form of natural selection in which individuals at one end of a distribution curve have higher fitness than individuals in the middle or at the other end of the curve  
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stabilizing selection   form of natural selection in which individuals near the center of a distribution curve have higher fitness than individuals at either end of the curve  
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disruptive selection   natural selection in which individuals at the upper and lower ends of a distribution curve have higher fitness than individuals near the middle of the curve  
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genetic drift   random change in allele frequency caused by a series of chance occurrence that cause an allele to become more or less common in a population  
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bottleneck effect   a change in allele frequency following a dramatic reduction in the size of a population  
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founder effect   change in allele frequencies as a result of the migration of a small subgroup of a population  
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genetic equilibrium   situation in which allele frequencies in a population remain the same  
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Hardy-Weinburg principle   principle that states that allele frequencies in a population remain constant unless one or more factors cause those frequencies to change  
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sexual selection   type of reproduction in which cells from two parents unite to form the first cell of a new organism  
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species   a groups of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring  
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speciation   formation of a new species  
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reproductive isolation   separation of a species or population so that they no longer interbreed and evolve into two separate two separate species  
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behavioral isolation   form of reproductive isolation in which two populations develop differences in courtship rituals or other behaviors that prevent them from breeding  
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geographic isolation   forms of reproductive isolation which two populations are separated by geographic barriers such as rivers, mountains, or bodies of water, leading to the formation of two separate subspecies  
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temporal isolation   form of reproductive isolation in which two or more species reproduce at different times  
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