Evolution & Natural Selection

A characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.

• Ancestor
• Adaptation
• Descendant
• Fossil

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A relative who lived in the past.

• Charles Darwin
• Speciation
• Ancestor
• Descendant

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The process of selecting a few organisms with desired traits to serve as parents of the next generation.  Selective breeding of plants and animals to promote the occurrence of desirable traits in offpsring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Generation Time
• Artificial Selection

English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882).

• Darwin
• Wallace
• Linnaeus
• Lamarck

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An original species from which all other species evolved.

• Fossil
• Natural Selection
• Descendant
• Common Ancestor

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New features that do not appear in fossils of ancestors.

• Derived traits
• Extinct
• Genetic Variation
• Species

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One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc.

• Genetic trait
• Descendant
• Survival of the Fittest
• Ancestor

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Change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.

• Extinction
• Genetic variation
• Natural Resources
• Evolution

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A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals

• Generation Time
• Fossil Record
• Extinct
• Speciation

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Preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms.

• Natural Selection
• Fossil
• Adaptation
• Derived trait

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