Natural Selection Vocab

A process by which a population becomes better suited to its environment by increasing the frequencies of alleles that provide benefits to survival and reproduction.

• Biodiversity

• Mutation

• Adaptation

• Evolution

Features that help identify something

• Fingerprints

• License

• Characteristic

• Scar

Diversity is the quality or state of having many (a)   forms, types, ideas etc.

All of the living and nonliving factors in an area.

• Genes

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Environment

Any factor, whether abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms

• Environmental Pressure

• Environmental Factor

• Environmental Factory

• Environmental Abrasion

Change in the frequencies of alleles in a population over time

• Evolution

• Reproduction

• Adaptation

• Reconciliation

Who would win?

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A species that has permanently disappeared from the Earth is...

• Endangered

• Extinct

• Abundant

• Surviving

The reproductive process involving two parents whose genetic material is combined to produce a new organism different from themselves.

• Cloning

• Binary fission

• Respiration

• Variation

A process by which organisms with favorable traits produce more successful offspring than organisms with less favorable traits, causing the favorable traits to become more common in the population.

• Artificial selection

• selective breeding

• natural selection

• inbreeding