Natural Selection

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

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variations

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

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adaptation

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

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homologous structures

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Body parts that have lost their original function.

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vestigial structures

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

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camouflage

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

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Charles Darwin

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

light colored moths

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dark colored moths

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red colored moths

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red and light colored moths

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light colored moths

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

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more likely

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

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adaptation

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

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Fittest