Evolution Key Words Flashcards
1
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Extinct
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No individuals of the species are alive in the world today
2
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Conservation
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Protecting the natural environment to prevent any further extinctions and enable all species to flourish
3
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Evolution
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The theory that life on Earth has developed from simple unicellular organisms to the complex variety of multicellular organisms seen today
4
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Endangered
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The numbers of individuals in a species are dangerously low
5
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Biodiversity
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The enormous variety of living things on Earth
6
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Natural Selection
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Darwin’s suggested mechanism for Evolution: that individuals in a population vary with only
the best adapted to their environment surviving to reproduce and pass on their advantageous characteristics to their off spring
