Restless Genes

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Prospect

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the chance that something might happen in the future

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Millennia

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One Thousand Years

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Discipline

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a branch of knowledge

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Provocatively

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done in a way that causes a strong reaction

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Nomadic

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moving from place to place a lot

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Gene

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a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and determines some characteristic of the offspring.

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Mutation

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a change in the DNA sequence that can lead to changes in traits.

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Natural Selection

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the process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

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Evolution

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the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Phenotype

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the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.