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Introduction to Adaptation

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Tenth graders observe collections of specimens and discuss their answers to provided questions. They explore common ancestry, homology, analogy, adaptive radiation, and evolution, while formulating creative answers based on their observations.

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analogies, evolution, the theory of evolution, adaptive radiation

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10th
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Science
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