Natural Selection

Front

What is the term for an event or process that leads to a result or change?

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Cause

Front

What do you call a group of individuals born and living at about the same time?

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Generation

Front

What is the term for any difference in traits between individual organisms?

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Variation

Front

What is the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations?

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Natural Selection

Front

What is a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait?

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Mutation

Front

What is the term for the inherited characteristics that increase an organism's chance of survival?

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Adaptive Trait

Front

What do we call the process by which organisms produce offspring?

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Reproduction

Front

What is the term for the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat?

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Biodiversity

Front

What is the term for the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources?

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Competition

Front

What is the term for the gradual change in species over time?

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Evolution