Chapter 15-bio vocab
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Latin | English |
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| Evolution |  change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms |
| Natural Selection | process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest |
| Artificial Selection | selection by humans for breeding of useful traits from the natural variation among different organisms |
| Common Ancestor | principle that all living things were derived from common ancestors |
| Fitness | ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment |
| Vestigial | organ that serves no useful function in an organism |
| Adaptation | inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival |
| Homologous Structures | structures that have different mature forms in different organisms but develop from the same embryonic tissues |
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