fossil, the remains of an organism, evolution, a change in allele frequencies in a population over time, cladogram, a diagram that shows relationships between organisms, common ancestor, the organism that came before two or more organisms (descendents), population, a group of the same organism in a given area, Charles Darwin, a naturalist who contributed to the theory of evolution, relative dating, to determine the age of a fossil based on the rock layer it's found in, speciation, forming of a new species by evolution from preexisting species, sudden appearance, when an organism appears in the fossil record fully formed, molecular evidence, DNA and proteins that related organisms share, extinction, elimination of a species, gradualism, slow changes over time, punctuated equilibrium, bursts of change followed by periods of stability, adaptive radiation/ divergent evolution, a number of different species arise from one common ancestor, homologous structures, similar structures that suggest common ancestry, convergent evolution, unrelated species evolve similar characteristics, analogous structures, wings of a bird, bat, butterfly, coevolution, two organisms change in response to each other.

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