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| 7600636633 | Ecosystem Diversity | variety of habitats, living communities, and ecological processes in the living world |  | 0 |
| 7600636634 | Phenotype | An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits. |  | 1 |
| 7600636635 | Species Diversity | The number and relative abundance of species in a biological community. |  | 2 |
| 7600636636 | Artificial Selection | process by which humans modify a species by breeding it for certain traits |  | 3 |
| 7600636637 | Genetic Diversity | The range of genetic material present in a gene pool or population of a species. |  | 4 |
| 7600636638 | Natural Selection | A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment. |  | 5 |
| 7600636639 | Species Richness | the number of different species in the community |  | 6 |
| 7600636640 | Fitness | Ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment |  | 7 |
| 7600636641 | Species Evenness | the relative proportion of different species in a given area |  | 8 |
| 7600636642 | Adaptations | changes made to organisms to help it meet its needs |  | 9 |
| 7600636643 | Phylogenies | the branching patterns of evolutionary relationships |  | 10 |
| 7600636644 | Genetic Drift | A change in the gene pool of a population due to chance |  | 11 |
| 7600636645 | Evolution | The gradual change in a species over time |  | 12 |
| 7600636646 | Bottleneck Effect | a reduction in the genetic diversity of a population caused by a reduction in its size |  | 13 |
| 7600636647 | Microevolution | Change in genetic makeup of a population from generation to generation. |  | 14 |
| 7600636648 | Founder Effect | genetic drift that occurs after a small number of individuals colonize a new area |  | 15 |
| 7600636649 | Macroevolution | Evolution that gives rise to new species, genera, families, classes, or phyla |  | 16 |
| 7600636650 | Geographic Isolation | Isolation between populations due to physical barriers |  | 17 |
| 7600636651 | Genes | DNA segments that serve as the key functional units in hereditary transmission. |  | 18 |
| 7600636652 | Reproductive Isolation | Barriers that impede members of two different species fro producing fertile offspring. |  | 19 |
| 7600636653 | Genotype | An organism's genetic makeup, or allele combinations. |  | 20 |
| 7600636654 | Allopatric Speciation | the process of speciation that occurs with geographic isolation |  | 21 |
| 7600636655 | Mutation | A change in a gene or chromosome. |  | 22 |
| 7600636656 | Sympatric Speciation | The formation of new species in populations that live in the same geographic area. |  | 23 |
| 7600636657 | Recombination | the rearrangement of genetic material, especially by crossing over in chromosomes or by the artificial joining of segments of DNA from different organisms |  | 24 |
| 7600873743 | Niche Generalists | a species that can live under a wide range of abiotic or biotic conditions |  | 25 |
| 7600873744 | Niche Specialists | organisms which live in a specific habitat or feed on a small group of species |  | 26 |
| 7600873745 | Fossils | the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock |  | 27 |
| 7600873746 | Mass Extinction | event in which many types of species become extinct over a short period of time |  | 28 |
| 7600873747 | Sixth Mass Extinction | current mass extinction that is possible in this time period |  | 29 |
| 7600873748 | Genetic Engineering | The direct manipulation of genes for practical purposes. |  | 30 |
| 7600873749 | Genetically Modified Organisms | genes from the DNA of one species are extracted and artificially forced into the genes of an unrelated plant or animal |  | 31 |
| 7600873750 | Range of Tolerance | the limits to the abiotic conditions that a species can tolerate |  | 32 |
| 7600873751 | Fundamental Niche | the entire set of conditions under which an animal (population, species) can survive and reproduce itself |  | 33 |
| 7600873752 | Realized Niche | the set of conditions actually used by given animal (pop, species), after interactions with other species (predation and especially competition) have been taken into account |  | 34 |
