Evolution Vocabulary

Changes that occur in the DNA of plants and animals that occur over a long time and are better able to survive.

• evolution

• natural selection

• mutation

• Gregor Mendel

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Changes plants and animals can make fairly quickly to survive a change in the environment.

• mutation

• Charles Darwin

• speciation

• adapt

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Plants or animals that have similar genes and look very similar.

• DNA

• genes

• species

• Jean Baptiste-Lamarck

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French biologist who was the first to notice plants and animals changed to fit their environment.

• Charles Darwin

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• predator

• vestigial structure

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Scientist who studied evolution and realized that the STRONGEST survive and have more offspring.

• Gregor Mendel

• DNA

• Charles Darwin

• mimicry

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When a plant/animal changes so much over time that it is basically a new plant or animal.

• speciation

• mutation

• genes

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Those plants and animals best suited to the environment will have more offspring.

• camouflage

• DNA

• speciation

• natural selection

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An unplanned or accidental change in the DNA.

• adapt

• mutation

• speciation

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Scientist who understood the traits passed down were made of genes. These genes were made up of a special code called DNA.

• Gregor Mendel

• DNA

• Charles Darwin

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The specific code that makes up the gene or specific trait.

• species

• mimicry

• vestigial structure

• DNA

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