Evolution

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What is Evolution?

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The process by which different kinds of living organisms develop and diversify from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

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What is Natural Selection?

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The process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

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What is Variation in biology?

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Genetic differences between individuals of the same species.

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What is Adaptation?

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A trait that gives an organism an advantage in its particular environment.

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What is Extinction?

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The end of an organism or a group of organisms, typically due to environmental changes or loss of habitat.

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What is Artificial Selection?

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The intentional breeding of organisms with desirable traits to produce offspring with those traits.

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What is a Species?

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A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.

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What is a Fossil?

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The preserved remains or traces of a once-living organism, providing evidence of past life.

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What is a Common Ancestor?

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An ancestral species from which two or more species have evolved.

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What is Genetic Drift?

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A mechanism of evolution that refers to random changes in the frequency of alleles in a population.