Natural Selection Vocab

Front

A trait that increases survival in a specific environment.

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adaptive trait

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Front

An event or process leading to a result or change

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cause

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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Hiding by resembling the background

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camouflage

Front

Result or change due to an event or process

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effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Front

Everything surrounding an organism

Back

environment

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Front

A characteristic of a species

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feature

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Front

Instruction for making a protein molecule

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gene

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

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A group of individuals born and living at the same time

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generation

Front

A graph using bars to show distribution of values in a group

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histogram

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The process by which traits in a population change over generations

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natural selection

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2