System of naming and classifying organisms based on shared characteristics and universal traits, Taxonomy, The selective breeding of plants and animals to promote the occurrence of desirable traits in the offspring, Artificial selection, Random changes in allele frequencies caused by a series of chance occurrences , Genetic drift, Study of evolutionary relationships among organisms , Phylogeny, Geological processes resulting from plate movement, Plate tectonics , A change in allele frequencies following the migration of a small subgroup of the population, Founder effect, Change overtime; process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms , Evolution, Organisms that are best suited to the environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest, Natural selection, Heritable characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce, Adaptation, Movement of genes into or out of a population, Gene flow, Preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms, Fossils, All genes present in a population, Gene pool, Term used to describe a species that has died and has no living members, Extinct , How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment, Fitness, A change in allele frequencies following a dramatic , Bottleneck- effect, Formation of new species, Speciation .

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