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What is the same species?
Organisms that can mate
with one another and
produce fertile offspring
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What is a fossil?
The preserved remains
or traces of organisms
that lived in the past.
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What is slowly?
The length of time Darwin
thought it took for species
to evolve.
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What are fossils?
Remains of a once living
organisms that can be used as
evidence of a common ancestor.
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What are genes?
Control traits
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What is a petrified fossil?
A fossil formed when
minerals replace all or
part of an organism
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What is natural selection?
The process by which
individuals that are better
adapted to their
environment are more likely
to survive and reproduce.
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What are homologous structures?
Similar structures that are
evidence that two organisms
share a common ancestor.
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What is a mutation?
Any change in a gene or
chromosome
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What is relative dating?
Method to compare the ages
of two fossils based on
the layer of rock in
which it was found
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What are the Galapagos Islands?
The location of most of Darwin’s
observations which lead to his
Theory of evolution
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What are evidence of a common ancestor?
Fossils, similarities
in early development,
similarities in body structure,
DNA, and protein structure .
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What is an adaptation?
A trait that helps an organism
survive and reproduce
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What is 300 years?
The length of time it would take
for 30g of an element to decay to
7.5g when the half life is
150 years .
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What is selective breeding?
Darwin studied this in order to
develop his theory of evolution.
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What is evidence that the ancestors of
whales once walked on land?
Scientists have found fossils
of whale-like creatures
that had legs .
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What are variations?
Differences between members
of the same species
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What is 635 years?
The length of time it would take
for 440g of an element to decay
to 13.75g when the half life is
127 years.
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What are Darwin’s observations?
The beaks of finches were
different on different islands
according to what food was
available.
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What are 3 causes of natural selection?
Overproduction,
Variations,
and Competition .
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