Genetic Variation Vocab

A physical recation to a specific stimulus or situation.

• Behavior

• Response

• Variation

• Adaptation

An action or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue

• Behavior

• Stimulus

• Hibernation

• Homeostasis

The way in which a animal or person acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus

• Response

• Behavior

• Tropism

The tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physcological process

• Tropism

• Variation

• Homeostatsis

The turning of all or part of an organism in a particular direction in response to stimulus

• Natural Selection

• Tropism

Does variation mean teh condition of a animal or plant spending the winter in a dominant state

• True

• False

The condition of period of an animal or plant spending the winter in a dormant state

• Stimulus

• Adaptation

• Hibernation

The breeding of plants and animals to produce desirable traits

• Artificail Selection

• Natural selection

Teh process whereby organisims better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

• Natural Selection

• Adapation

A change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its enviornment

• Adaptation

• Gene

• Modification