MVHS AP Biology Ch. 22 Vocab-Campbell Reece
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- an idea that a population of organisms can change over the generations if individuals having certain heritable traits leave more offspring than other individuals
- natural selection
- a prevalence of ingerited characheristics that enhance organisms' survival and reproduction in specific environments
- evolutionary adaptation
- the genetic composition of a population changing over time
- evolution
- a philosophy dedicated to discovering the Creator's plan by studying nature
- natural theology
- the branch of biology concerned with naming and classifying the diverse forms of life
- taxonomy
- relics or impressions of organisms from the past, preserved in rock
- fossils
- rocks formed from the sand and mud that settle at the bottom of lakes, seas, and marshes
- sedimentary rock
- the study of fossils
- paleontology
- the speculation that each boundary between the strata corresponded in time to a catastrophe
- catastrophism
- the theory which holds that profound change is the cumulative product of slow but continuous process
- gradualism
- Lyell's idea that geologic processes have not changed throughout Earth's history
- uniformitarianism
- Darwin's initial phrase for the general process of evolution
- descent with modification
- the breeding of domesticated plants and animals
- artificial selection
- similarity in characteristics resulting from common ancestry
- homology
- structures in different species that are similar because of common ancestry
- homologous structures
- structures of marginal, if any, importance to the organism
- vestigial organs
- the geographic distribution of species
- biogeography
- plants and animals that are found nowhere else in the world
- endemic