Natural Selection

A slight difference in an inherited trait between individual members of the same species.

An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing. Options: variation, adaptation, vestigial structure, mutation

Body parts of organisms that are the same in structure and position but different in function.

Body parts that have lost their original function.

When an organism has a trait that allows it to blend in with its environment, we call that ____.

The English naturalist that developed the theory of how evolution works.

According to natural selection, light colored tree trunks would favor:

light colored moths

dark colored moths

red colored moths

red and light colored moths

Genetic diversity in a species makes long term survival of some members

A physical trait favored by an environmental change can be called an

Natural Selection is driven by a change in the environment and survival of the