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Processes
100
Fossil
What is a mineralized or petrified replica of a skeleton, bone, tooth, shell, leaf, etc.?
100

Natural Selection

individuals with certain genetic traits are more likely to survive and reproduce under a specific set of environmental conditions

100

The first phase in the creation of the Earth, in which systems of chemical reactions formed the first cells.

What is Chemical Evolution?

100
An Arctic Fox having thick, white fur.
What is an adaptation?
100
Genes mutate, individuals are selected, and populations evolve that are better adapted.
What is Biological Evolution?
200
Biological Evolution
What is the change in a population's genetic makeup through successive generations?
200
Specialist Species
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200
Random changes in the structure or number of DNA molecules in a cell that can be inherited by offspring.
What is mutations?
200
Cockroach
What is a Generalist Species?
200
When two different species interact over a long period of time, a change in one species' gene pool can lead to a change in the other species' gene pool.
What is Coevolution?
300

Reproductive isolation

what is halt in the exchange of genes due to the separation of populations. 

300

Biodiversity

variety of life on Earth, including species diversity, genetic diversity, ecological diversity, and functional diversity.

300

Area that provides the abiotic and biotic factors a species needs to survive. 

What is Habitat?

300
The Golden Toad of Costa Rica.
What is Extinction?
300
The process in which two species arise from one.
What is Speciation?
400
Niche
What is the role a species plays in an ecosystem?
400
Artificial Selection.
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400

species that migrate into an ecosystem or are deliberately or accidentally introduced into an ecosystem by humans. 

What is a nonnative species?

400
Chickens that lay low-cholesterol eggs.
What is a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)?
400
The process of altering an organism's genetic makeup through adding, deleting, or changing segments of its DNA.
What is Genetic Engineering?
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