Natural Selection - Individuals better suited to their environment survive and reproduce more, Homologous Structures - Body parts with similar structure and origin, but may have different functions, Vestigial Structures - Cells, tissues or organs in an organism that no longer serve a function, Analogous Structures - Similar structures in unrelated organisms, Adaptation - A feature that is favored by the process of natural selection, Artificial Selection - Identification by humans of desirable traits in plants and animals, Fitness - A measurement of an individual’s success at passing its traits on to the next generation, Cladogram - Branching diagram that show evolutionary relationship between organisms, Mutation - A change in the genetic code (DNA) of an organism, Fossil - Preserved evidence of life from the past, Heritable - Able to be passed from parents to offspring, Limited Resources - Things that organisms compete for, like food, shelter, mates, etc., Convergent Evolution - When unrelated organisms evolve similar feature and/or behaviors, Species - Group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, Alleles - Different versions of the same gene, Phenotype - The physical appearance of an organism that results from its genotype, Genotype - The specific set of genes that an organism has,

Evolution Vocabulary

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