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| processes that have transformed life over time: change over time |
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| populations of organisms can change over time as a result of individuals with certain heritable traits leaving more offspring that other individuals |
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| inherited characteristics that enhance an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment |
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| philosophy dedicated to finding the Creator's plan by studying nature |
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| naming and classifying forms of life; binomial nomenclature |
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| relics or impressions of organisms from the past |
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| rock formed from sand and mud that settles to the bottom of seas, lakes and marshes |
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| Cuvier~each boundary between strat corresponded in time to a catastrophe, such as a flood or drought, that had destroyed many of the species living there at the time |
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| Hutton~ profound change is the cummulative product of slow, but continuous processes |
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| Lyell~ geological processes have not changed throughout Earth's history |
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| descent with modification |
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| unity in life, with all organisms related through descent from some unknown prototypes that lived in the remote past |
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| breeding of domesticated plants and animals |
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| geographical distribution of species |
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| similarity in characteristics resulting from common ancestry |
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| structures that are constructed from the same structures, but have been modified over time to fit the function of the organism: ex: whale flipper and bat wing |
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| structures of marginal importance to an organism: historical remnants of structures that had important functions in ancestors: whale hindlimbs |
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| development of an organism |
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| evolutionary history of the species |
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