Evolution, change in the gene pool over time, Mutations, random changes in the gene pool, Adaptations, characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular enviroment, Variations, the occurrence of hereditary or nonhereditary differences between different individual of population, Natural selection, the process by which organisms that inherit advantageous traits tend to reproduce more successfully than other organisms do, Overproduction, producing more offspring than the environment can support, Fossils, remains or imprints of once living things, Coevolution, when two species evolve together, each one making changes in response to the other, Geographic speciation, when a species is separated by a landform such as mountains, resulting in 2 new species, Ancestor, an early type of organism from which other organisms have evolved, Acquired trait, a trait that is not passed onto offspring because these traits do not become part of an organism's DNA, Speciation, the formation of a new species, Fitness, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.

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