A feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place or plant and serving to identify it.
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Speciation
Formation of a new species, such as when populations of a species are segregated geographically and evolve until they are no longer capable of interbreeding.
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Variation
A useful slight change in a species.
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Evolution
The development of new species over time through a process of natural selection.
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Validate
to confirm that a scientific theory is true.
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Recessive Allele
Version of a gene (allele) that will only have an effect if the other allele is also recessive.
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Dominant Allele
Version of a gene (allele) that will always have an effect.
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Genotype
The alleles of a particular gene (or genes) possessed by an organism.
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Heterozygous
If both alleles for a characteristic are different, the organism is heterozygous for that characteristic.
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Homozygous
If both alleles for a characteristic are the same the organism is homozygous for that characteristic.
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Formation of a new species, such as when populations of a species are segregated geographically and evolve until they are no longer capable of interbreeding.
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Speciation
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A useful slight change in a species.
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Card 4
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The development of new species over time through a process of natural selection.
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