AKS 4A-E Vocabulary

What is an inherited characteristic that helps organisms survive?

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

Evolution is...

• changes over time in populations

• natural process that passes favorable traits

• historical timeline of fossils

• the process in which an animal dies out

Group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.

• species
• gene pool
• population
• homologous structure

Group of organisms all of the same species, living in the same place at the same time.

• gene pool
• population
• species
• evolution

A population moving from on place to another.

• speciation
• geographic isolation
• genetic drift
• migration

Scientist who proposed the theory of Natural Selection.

• Hardy
• Weinburg
• Darwin
• Einstein

A change in the genetic information (DNA).

• Mutation
• Speciation
• Migration
• Evolution

Gradual change in a population through adaptations over time.

• migration
• directional selection
• evolution
• speciation

mechanism by which individuals that have inherited beneficial adaptions produce more offspring on average than do other individuals 

• Fitness
• Natural Selection
• Evolution
• Artificial Selection

differences in physical traits of an individual from the group to which it belongs

• Adaptation
• Variation
• Fittness
• Natural Selection