Taxonomy/Evolution Vocab

Change over time

• Natural selection

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Fossil record

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

inherited characteristics that increases an organism's chance of survival

• Natural selection

• Adaptation

• Natural selection

• Vestigial structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce.

• Natural selection

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Vestigial structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

similar structure, different function- results from common ancestry

• Gene flow

• . Anologous structures

• Vestigial structure

• Homologous structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a structure that no longer serves a useful purpose in an organism

• Homologous structure

• Vestigial structure

• Analogous Structure

• Embryology

random change in allele frequencies in a population

• Genetic drift

• Fossil record

• Embryology

• Gene flow

Body parts that share a common function, but not structure

• Homologous structure

• Vestigial structure

• Analogous structures

• Speciation

the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution.

• Cladogram

• Gene flow

• Fossil record

• Speciation

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

information about past life, including the structure of organisms, and the order in which they lived

• Genetic drift

• Embryology

• Fossil record

• Vestigial structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

studying similarities between organisms in early developmental stages

• Embryology

• Gene flow

• Speciation

• Cladogram

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3