Biology - Evolution

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Homologous structures

What are physical traits in a species that have been inherited by a common ancestor? Answer with a single words or term.

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Charles Darwin

________ was known as the 'Father of Evolution ", he developed the theory of evolution to explain the unity and diversity of life.

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Evolutionary biology

What is the study of how evolution occurs? Answer with a single words or term.

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Artificial selection

________ is like natural selection, but this is where humans chose the "desirable traits "they want an animal or plant to have.

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Evolution

What is the process in which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms over time? Answer with a single words or term.

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Breeders

________ can take desirable traits from each breed and breed them together to get the desirable combo.

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Vestigial structures

________ are structures that have lost all al the dedicated function in a given species.

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