5.1 Evidence for Evolution
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- 5.1 Evidence for Evolution
- Essential Idea
- much evidence for the evolution of life on earth
- Evolution
- cumulative, gradual change in the genetic characteristic of successive generations of a species of an organism
- Evidence for theory of evolution
- Fossil record
- Artificial selection
- bones of the vertebrate limb
- Adaptive radiation
- Evolution of homologous structure by adaptive radiation
- Analogous structure
- Structure may look similar but different evolution origins
- Homologous structure
- Structure may look different and perform different structure, but have same evolution origins
- Analogous structure
- Divergence into separate species
- If 2 populations of species become separated, they can't interbreed, therefore may evolve in different directions
- Essential Idea
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