bio vocab terms (evolution)

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diversity

variety

classification

the result of classifying or being classified

extinct

no longer in existence

natural history

the study of the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature

specimen

a member of a species taken for experimentation or study

artificial selection

a process of breeding in which the breeder chooses to breed only those which have desirable characteristics

natural selection

the process by which nature selects the members of a species most fit to survive in their given habitat to breed

advantageous

providing an advantage

homologous structures

structures which perform the same biological function in different organisms

relative frequency

the observed number of successful events for a finite sample of trials

polygenic

controlled by more than one gene

normal distribution

A function that represents the distribution of many random variables as a symmetrical bell-shaped graph

genetic drift

the change in the relative frequency in which a gene variant occurs in a population due to random sampling and chance

genetic equilibrium

no changes in allele frequency