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| a well supported testable explanation of phenomena that have occurred in the natural world |
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| preserved remains of ancient animals |
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| nature provides a variation and humans select those variations to make them useful |
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| the realization that members of each species compete regularly to obtain food, living space, and other life necessities |
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| the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in its specific environment |
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| any inherited characteristic that increases an organisms chance of survival |
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| the process that individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce successfully |
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| survival of the fittest - nature's way of artificial selection |
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| descent with modification |
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| the principle that species have descended with changes from other species over time |
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| the principle that farther back we can find common ancestors for all living things |
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| structures that have different mature forms but develop from the same embryotic tissues in different organisms |
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| traces of unusable organs in an animal |
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