Amplify Evolutionary History Vocabulary

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A trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment.

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adaptive trait

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a related organism from a previous generation

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ancestor

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a part of an organism (for example, one or more bones)

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body structure

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An older population from which two or more newer species descended.

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common ancestor population

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A more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population

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descendant species

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to classify based on scientific examination

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diagnose

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everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

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environment

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The process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time.

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evolution

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the very long time that spans the history of Earth, from the very first cellular life to the present

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evolutionary time

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having died out completely and no longer alive anywhere on Earth

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extinct