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6. The father and mother both contribute genetic material that mixes to determine the characteristics of their offspring.
7. The theory that life could not have come to be by chance, that it was created as such by a higher being.
9. A volcanic island that is one of the many small islands that make up the Galapagos Island.
10. The evolution or similar adaptation in unrelated groups of animals (Homoplasy).
17. A bar chart to represent continuous data.
19. A balance by opposing forces (Think of overly large beaks and tiny beaks).
20. Extremely distinct variation with no intermediates (achondroplasia).
22. Small changes over time that become a selective advantage.
23. Organisms that adapt to their environment to increase their species’ chances of survival and reproduction.
24. Variants that are continuous, that go from one extreme to another (short to tall). i.e., height.
25. Selective breeding to develop or enhance certain traits.

1. A finch originating from the Galapagos islands, specifically a medium ground finch.
2. A change that allows an organism to survive and reproduce.
3. Model of evolution that theorizes that evolution is slow, steady, and gradual.
4. Where a trait is favored, meaning they have a greater chance at reproduction and survival.
5. The distance between the top and bottom of a birds (finch’s) beak.
8. Animals that rear their young in external pouches.
11. Stage that occurs between evolutionary development.
12. The population stabilizes on a non-extreme trait (think of finch’s beaks once more).
13. An organism’s size, shape, and composition.
14. The belief that underlying nature constitutes and differentiates social categories.
15. A statement accepted as true and used for the basis of theory and argument.
16. Bones found by Darwin showing the variation in species and how the environment contributes to this change.
18. Characteristic that a species adorns such as color, beak size, eye color, etc…
21. The ability to produce offspring.