8 - Unit 6 vocabulary

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mechanism

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the natural process by which something takes place

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natural selection

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when individuals who are better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce

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competition

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struggle between living things to get the necessary things (water/food/shelter)

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adaptation

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an inherited behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive/reproduce

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expression

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determines how a cell acts

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artificial selection

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happens when humans only breed organisms with desired traits

EX: purebred dogs

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genetic engineering

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when scientists transfer a gene from one organism to another organism

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gene therapy

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changing a gene to treat a medical condition/disease/disorder

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clone

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an organism that has the exact same genes as the organism from which it came from

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genome

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the complete set of genetic information from an organism