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| 673787169 | natural selection | A population can change over time if individuals with more fit traits leave more offspring than less fit individuals |  | 0 |
| 673787170 | evolutionary adaptation | An accumulation of inherited characteristics that enhance organisms' ability to survive and reproduce in specific environments |  | 1 |
| 673787171 | Aristotle | Said species were unchanging . Life could be arranged on a scale of increasing complexity. (Scale of Nature) |  | 2 |
| 673787172 | Old Testament | Belief that species designed by God, and therefore perfect. Adaptations seen as proof that God had designed each species for its particular purpose. | 3 | |
| 673787173 | Carolus Linnaeus | Founder of taxonomy, system of naming and classifying organisms | 4 | |
| 673787174 | fossils | Remains or traces of organisms from the past | 5 | |
| 673787175 | paleontology | Study of fossils |  | 6 |
| 673787176 | Georges Cuvier | Saw that species in lower strata did not appear in upper strata; thought each boundary between layers was a natural disaster | 7 | |
| 673787177 | catastrophism | The theory that the Earth has been affected in the past by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope |  | 8 |
| 673787178 | gradualism | Slow but continuous change |  | 9 |
| 673787179 | James Hutton | Said that geologic features explained by gradual mechanisms currently operating | 10 | |
| 673787180 | Theory of Uniformitarianism | Same geologic processes are operating today as in the past, at the same rate |  | 11 |
| 673787181 | Charles Lyell | Came up with the theory of uniformitarianism | 12 | |
| 673787182 | Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck | Said that life evolves if environments change, but he had an incorrect mechanism | 13 | |
| 673787183 | use and disuse | Lamarck's idea that parts of body used more often become larger; if not, become smaller |  | 14 |
| 673787184 | inheritance of acquired characteristics | Lamarck's idea that organisms could pass on modifications to offspring |  | 15 |
| 673787185 | Thomas Malthus | Said that human suffering due to population increasing faster than food or resources |  | 16 |
| 673787186 | artificial selection | Humans modifying species for desired traits through selective breeding |  | 17 |
| 673787187 | decent with modification | Darwin's way of referring to evolution |  | 18 |
| 673787188 | MRSA | Antibiotic resistant Stapholococcus | 19 | |
| 673787189 | fitness | Individuals whose inherited traits confer an advantage have a better chance of surviving in a given environment and will leave more offspring | 20 | |
| 673787190 | homology | Similarity resulting from common ancestry |  | 21 |
| 673787191 | homologous structures | Same structure, different function. Comes from common ancestor |  | 22 |
| 673787192 | comparative embryology | Embryos of vertebrates share many anatomical homologies |  | 23 |
| 673787193 | vestigial structures | Are little or no importance to organism, but remain from an ancestor |  | 24 |
| 673787194 | biogeography | Geographic distribution of species |  | 25 |
