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Apologia Biology M9
Vocabulary for Module 9 Exploring Creation with Biology
Question | Answer |
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The Immutability of Species | The idea that each individual species on the planet was specially created by God and could never fundamentally change (267) |
Microevolution | The theory that natural selection can, over time, take an organism and transform it into a more specialized species of that organism (268) |
Macroevolution | The hypothesis that processes similar to those at work in microevolution can, over eons of time, transform an organism into a completely different kind of organism (268) |
Strata | Distinct layers of rock (270) |
Fossils | Preserved remains of once-living organisms (270) |
Paleontology | The study of fossils (273) |
Structural Homology | The study of similar structures in different species (282) |