Flashcards
Chapter 15: Evolution Biology
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- 1Evolutionchange over time; the process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organism.
- 2Theorya well-supported testable explanation of phenomena that have occurred in the natural world.
- 3Charles Darwin-theory of evolution
-"fossils" - 4Fossilspreserved remains of ancient organisms.
- 5artificial selectionnature provided the variation and humans selected those variations that they found useful.
- 6struggle for existencemeans that each of species compete regularly to obtain food, living space, and other necessities to live.
- 7fitnessDarwin: fitness is the result of adaptations.
- 8adaptationis any inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival.
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