Dna & Heredity Vocab- Advanced

A change in the characteristics of living things over time

Process by which a new species evolves.

Feature passed from one generation to the next.

Process by which organisms with traits that better enable them to adapt to their environment will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers, allowing these favorable traits to be passed on to the next generations.; a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution

A process in which humans consciously select for or against particular features in organisms. This process causes evolutionary change in the organism with humans, not nature, doing the selecting.

Variants of genes, dominants are labeled capital letters and recessive are lowercase

The insertion of genes into a person's cells to cure a genetic disorder.

Genetically determined characteristics

Trait that enhances an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment.

the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring