Evolution - process by which modern organisms have changed over time, Fossils - The preserved remains or traces of organisms that once lived on Earth., artificial selection/selective breeding - process by which humans breed animals and plants for a desired set of particular traits, Adaptation - inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival, Fitness - Ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment, Biogeography - study of the distribution of organisms around the world, homologous structures - similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor, analogous structures - structures that do not have a common evolutionary origin but are similar in function, vestigial structures - remnant of a structure that may have had an important function in a species' ancestors, but has no clear function in the modern species., natural selection - A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment.,

Evolution - Ch. 17

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