Vocabulary-Change over Time

Features that help identify something

• Characteristic

• Phenotypes

• Looks

• Charm

Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

Behavioral changes of individuals of a species that allow for better survival. (Acquired traits)

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Behavior
• Environment

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

Organisms within a population have genetic differences in their traits called.

• Genotypes
• Variation
• Natural Selection
• Heterozygous

the condition of having or being composed of differing elements

• Multiculturalism
• Diversity
• Equality
• Racism

The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution
• Nucleotide 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection

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When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

• Adaption
• Extinction
• Fossilization
• Mutation

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The struggle for existence against other members of an organisms species is

• Competition
• Natural Selection
• gene flow
• genetic drift

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Remains of ancient organisms are called

• Extinctions
• Fossils
• Mutations
• Variations

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