Basic Biology Concepts

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Fitness

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How well an animal or plant can survive and have babies in its environment.

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Adaptation

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A change in a living thing that helps it live better in its environment.

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Natural Selection

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The way nature helps animals or plants with helpful traits survive and have more babies.

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Artificial Selection

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When people choose which plants or animals to breed to get certain traits.

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Population

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A group of the same kind of living thing living in the same place.

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Survival

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The ability to stay alive and safe.

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Fossil

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The remains or marks of a plant or animal that lived a long time ago, now found in rock.

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Inherit

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To get traits, like eye color or hair type, from your parents.

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Generation

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A group of living things born around the same time.

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Evolution

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A slow change in living things over a very long time.