Vocabulary Terms

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Vocabulary Terms

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• Biogenesis
• Spontaneous generation
• Half-life
• Isotope
• Radioactive dating
• Radioactive decay
• Radioactive isotope
• Archaebacteria
• Chemosynthesis
• Cynobacteria
• Endosymbiosis
• Ozone

• Absolute age
• Biogeography
• Cast
• Extinct
• Fossil
• Law of superposition
• Mass extinction
• Mold
• Relative age
• Sediment
• Stratum
• Acquired trait

• Adaptation
• Adaptive advantage
• Fitness
• Natural selection
• Population
• Uniformitarianism
• Adaptive radiation
• Analogous
• Artificial selection
• Coevolution
• Convergent evolution
• Divergent evolution
• Homologous
• Vestigial
• Phylogeny

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