Population, all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country., Jean Baptise Lamarck’s theory, proposes that traits acquired during an organism's lifetime can be inherited by its offspring, Mutation, a permanent alteration in the DNA sequence of an organism's genome, Natural Selection, organisms with traits better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing those beneficial traits to their offspring, Homologous Structures, physical features found in different species that share a common ancestor, even though these features may have different functions in the species, Vestigial Structures, body parts that have lost their original function through evolution and are often greatly reduced in size or function compared to their ancestral counterparts, Evolution, refers to the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations, Charles Darwin’s theory, architect of the theory of evolution by natural selection, Survival of the Fittest, the process where organisms best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce., Adaptation, a change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment., Genetic Variation, refers to the differences in DNA sequences between individuals within a population or species, Analogous Structures, similar structures in different species that serve the same function but do not share a common evolutionary origin, Comparative Embryology, the study that compares and contrasts the embryonic development of different species, highlighting similarities and differences in their early stages.

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