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Evolution

Change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.

Descent with modification

process by which descendants of ancestral organisms spread into various habitats and accumulate adaptations to diverse ways of life

Fitness

how well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment

Overproduction of Offspring

Organisms produce more offspring than need to sustain the population.

Struggle for Survival

Competition for the needs of life

Natural Selection

A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals becau

Artificial Selection

Selection by humans for breeding of useful traits from the natural variation among different organisms

Sexual Selection

when individuals select mates based on heritable traits

Species

a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.

Population

a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area

Genome

all of an organism's genetic material