Biodiversity Vocab Quiz Review 2020

The process by which organisms better adapted for their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less well adapted individuals do.

• NATURAL SELECTION

• GRADUALISM

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A model of evolution in which short periods of drastic and sudden change in populations occur.

• PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM

• GRADUALISM

Organisms of the same group of species living in the same geographical area, and can interbreed.

• POPULATION

• COMMUNITY

A model of evolution in which it proceeds by the accumulation of slow changes in the population rather than sudden change.

• GRADUALISM

• PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM

A structure in the current form of an organism that is reduced in size and/or serves little or no function.

• VESTIGIAL

• HOMOLOGY

A mechanism of evolution where alleles change over time due to chance.

• GENETIC DRIFT

• GENE FLOW

A similarity attributable to common origin.

• HOMOLOGY

• VESTIGIAL

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Also known as gene migration, is any movement of genes from one population to another.

• GENE FLOW

• GENETIC DRIFT

A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.

• SPECIES

• KINGDOM

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The alteration of a body structure, behavior, or function that makes an organism better suited for an environment.

• ADAPTATION

• DOMINANT TRAIT

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