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| A charachteristic that helps an organism survive in its enviroment. |
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| The most specific of the seven levels of classification; charachterized by a group of organisms that can mate with one another to produce fertile offspring. |
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| The process by which populations accumalate inherited changes over time. |
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| The solidified remains or imprints of a once living organism. |
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| A historical sequence of life indicated by fossils found in layers of the earths crust. |
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| The remnant of a once-useful anatomical structure. |
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| A distinguishing quality that can be passed from one generation to the next. |
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| The breeding of organisms that have certain desired traits. |
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| The process by which organisms with favorable traits survive and reproduce at higher rate than organisms without the favrable trait. |
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| A change in the order of the bases in an organisms' DNA deltion substitution or insertion |
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| The period between he birth of one generation and the birth of the next. |
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| The process by which two populations of the same species become so different that they can no longer interbreed. |
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