Science Unit 3 Lessons 1 & 2
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- organism
- a living thing
- species
- a group of organisms that can mate with one another and have offspring that can produce their own offspring
- extinct
- no longer in existence
- fossil
- the preserved remains or inprint of an organism
- biodiversity
- the variety of species in a certain place
- natural selection
- the process in which organisms with traits better suited to their environment reproduce more successfully than organisms with less desirable traits
- evolution
- the change in the properties of populations of organisms over time
- taxonomy
- the science of classifying living things
- taxonomist
- scientist who classifies living things
- kingdom
- broadest taxonomy group