Theory of Evolution.
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| What is evolution? | show 🗑
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| What was Charles Darwin's contribution to science? | show 🗑
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| show | Places around the world that had similar habitats often had different animals that were ecologically similar
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| show | the preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms.
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| What did Darwin notice about biodiversity within a local area? | show 🗑
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| show | Darwin noticed that some fossils of extinct animals were similar to living species.
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| How did Jean-Baptiste Lamarck propose that species evolve? | show 🗑
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| show | Hutton and Lyell concluded that Earth is extremely old.
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| show | Malthus reasoned that if the human population were to grow without control, then there would not be enough space and food for everyone to live.
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| What is artificial selection? | show 🗑
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| How is variation used in artificial selection? | show 🗑
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| show | A heritable characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment.
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| show | How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment
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| What is natural selection? | show 🗑
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| What is natural selection also called? | show 🗑
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| When does natural selection occur? | show 🗑
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| How does common descent explain the connection between living and extinct species? | show 🗑
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| show | The study of past and present distribution of organisms.
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| How does the geographic distribution of species today relate to their evolutionary history? | show 🗑
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| show | Structures that are similar in different species of common ancestry.
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| What do homologous structures suggest about the process of evolutionary change? | show 🗑
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| show | structures that are similar in function but not in structure; they do not suggest common ancestry.
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| show | A structure that is reduced in size and has little or no function.
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| What do similarities in embryonic development suggest about the process of evolutionary change? | show 🗑
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