| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Charles Darwin | English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882) |
| Artificial Selection | The selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals to encourage the occurrence of desirable traits. |
| Natural Selection | individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; survival of the fittest |
| Structural Adaptations | changes in body parts that allow a species to adapt to a particular niche,Ex: beaks of hawaiin honeycreepers or Darwin's finches |
| Camouflage | coloration that blends in with the surrounding environment |
| Mimicry | a defense in which one organism resembles another that is dangerous or poisonous |
| Physiological Adaptation | a physical or chemical event that occurs within the body of an organisms that enables survival |
| Embryology | the branch of biology dealing with the development of living things from fertilized eggs to its develped state. |
| Homologous Structures | body parts in one species that is similar in number and arrangement of parts in another species as a result of common ancestry |
| Analogous Structures | Structures that have the same function (ex. the wing of a butterfly and the wing of a bird) but different evolutionary backgrounds |
| Vestigial Structures | structures with no apparent purpose that resemble ancestor's structure |
| DNA | genetic material |
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