Natural Selection - The process of organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring, Domesticate - The process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use., Common Descent - The common ancestry of a particular group of organisms, Artificial Selection - The identification by humans of desirable traits in plants and animals, and the steps taken to enhance and perpetuate those traits in future generations., Adaptation - A change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment., Breed - To mate in the interest of producing offspring., Species - A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes., Evolution - The event of gradually adapting to the environment over many generations., Speciation - The event in which barriers or limitations lead to different species developing., Zygote - A fertilized egg., Sexual Reproduction - The action of reproduction that requires a male and a female., Asexual Reproduction - The action of reproduction that requires only one organism., Chromosome - A threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes. Usually looking like an X., Punnett Square - A table in which all of the possible outcomes for a genetic cross between two individuals with known genotypes are given., Genotype - The genetic makeup of an organism; in other words, it describes an organism's complete set of genes., Dominant Trait - A trait that will appear in the offspring if one of the parents contributes it. More commonly seen than other traits., Recessive Trait - A trait that only appears when both parents carry this less common trait., Pedigree - A type of family tree that maps traits,

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