Evolution Vocab

diagram depicting patterns of shared characteristics among species

• Phylogeny

• Cladograms

• Genetic Variation

• Adaptation

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the evolutionary history of lineage

• Node

• Clade

• Derived Character

• Phylogeny

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Presence of differences in sequences of genes between the organisms of a species

• Speciation

• Chemical Evolution

• Genetic Variation

• Organic Evolution

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process by which organisms that are most suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully and also called survival of the fittest.

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Cladograms

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heritable characteristics that increase an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in an environment

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Node

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 the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of earth

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Endosymbiotic Theory

• Evolution

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formation of a new species

• Speciaiton

• Organic Evolution

• Evoltution

• Clade

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Changes in the genetic makeup of species in a population as a result of responding to environmental changes

• Organic Evolution

• Chemical Evolution

• Clade

• Node

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 how oxygen or hydrogen gases "evolve" out of some types of chemical reactions

• Organic Evolution

• Chemical Evolution

• Taxon

• Binomial Nomenclature

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a trait that arose in the most recent common ancestor of a particular lineage and was passed along to its descendants.

is the loss of a tail, a trait that first appeared in an ancestor of apes and man

• Homologous Structures

• Fossil

• Derived Characteristic

• Aerobic Heterotroph

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