Natural Selection Vocabulary

a group of the same type of organism living in the same area

• generation

• trait

• population

• environment

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everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

• generation

• trait

• population

• environment

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a group of individuals born and living at the same time

• generation

• trait

• population

• environment

a specific characteristic of an individual organism

• generation

• trait

• population

• environment

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adaptive trait

• a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

• a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

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non-adaptive trait

• a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

• a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

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an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know

• cause

• effect

• prediction

• mutation

an event or process that leads to a result or change

• cause

• effect

• prediction

• mutation

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a result or change that happens because of an event or process

• cause

• effect

• prediction

• mutation

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

• natural selection

• mutation

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