Adaptations in Evolution Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- adaptation: a characteristic that occurred, and natural selection favoured it
- vestigial structure: an adaptation that served a purpose for an ancestor, but not anymore
- phenotype: visible characteristics that result from the species genotype and environment
- genotype: an organsim's hereditary information/genetics
- mutation: a sometimes beneficial change in dna structure
- fitness: an organism's ability to survive and pass on its dna to the next generation
- fossil: evidence of past adaptations of organisms captured in the earth's layers
- evolution: changes in the characteristics of a population, that occurrs over many generations
- allele: one of the possible options for characteristics in a singular gene
- clade: a group of species that all descended from one common ancestor
- coadaptation: two organisms evolve in tandem due to beneficial interactions with each other
- pangea: the super continent that existed in previous eras (proven by the fossil record)
