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ChangesOverTime Chapter7 Vocabulary 94 Adaptation Abehaviororphysicalcharacteristicthatallowsanorganismtosurviveor reproduceinitsenvironment Binomialnomenclature Thesystemfornamingorganismsinwhicheachorganismisgivenaunique,twopartscientificname Classification Theprocessofgroupingthingsbasedontheirsimilarities Comparativeanatomy Thecomparisonofthestructuresofdifferentorganisms Evolution Thegradualchangeofaspeciesovertime Extinction ThedisappearanceofallmembersofaspeciesfromEarth Fossil Thepreservedremainsortracesofanorganismthatlivedinthepast Genus Aclassificationgroupingthatconsistsofanumberofsimilar,closelyrelated species Gradualism Thetheorythatevolutionoccursslowlybutsteadily Habitat Thespecificenvironmentthatprovidesthethingsanorganismneedstolive, grow,andreproduce Homologousstructures Bodypartsthatarestructurallysimilarinrelatedspecies Naturalselection Aprocessbywhichindividualsthatarebetteradaptedtotheirenvironmentare morelikelytosurviveandreproducethanothersofthesamespecies Paleontologist Ascientistwhostudiesfossils Petrifiedfossil Afossilformedwhenmineralsreplaceallorpartofanorganism Punctuatedequilibrium Thetheorythatspeciesevolveduringshortperiodsofrapidchange Scientifictheory Awell-testedconceptthatexplainsawiderangeofobservations Species Agroupoforganismsthatarephysicallysimilarandcanmatewitheachother andcanproduceoffspringthatcanalsomateandreproduce Taxonomy Thescientificstudyofhowlivingthingsareclassified Meeker,7thGradeScience page1
