ANT 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Mutation, Deoxyribose, Chromosome
2 Oct 2016
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Fossils: physical remains of part or all of once-living organisms, mostly bones and teeth, that have become mineralized by the replacement of organic with inorganic materials. Species: a group of related organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile, viable offspring. Habitat: the specific area of the natural environment in which an organism lives. Adaptations: changes in physical structure, function, or behavior that allow an organism or species to survive and reproduce in a given environment. Natural selection: the process by which some organisms, with features that enable them to adapt to the environment, preferentially survive and reproduce, thereby increasing the frequency of those features in the population. Endemic: refers to a characteristic or feature that is a natural to a given population or environment. Adaptive radiation: the diversification of an ancestral group of organisms into new forms that are adapted to specific environmental niches. Uniformitarianism: the theory that processes that occurred in the geologic past are still at work today.
