Evolution and Diversity

The change in a species as a whole gradually over time.

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

• Biodiversity

• Survival of the Fittest

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

An inherited characteristic that improves an organism's ability to survive and reproduce.

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Speciation

• Artificial Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The process by which individuals with inherited characteristics more suited to the environment leave more offspring on average than others.

• Evolution

• Homologous Structures

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The evolutionary principle that species more suited to or better able to adapt to their environment will survive before less suited species.

• Survival of the Fittest

• Speciation

• Divergent Evolution

• Vestigial Structures

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Structures that originate from the same type of tissue but may be used differently in different organisms.

• Biodiversity

• Analogous Structures

• Vestigial Structures

• Homologous Structures

When two species evolve to be more and more different over time.

• Speciation

• Divergent Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Convergent Evolution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The purposeful choice to breed certain characteristics into a species of animals or plants.

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Biodiversity

• Artificial Selection

When different species develop similar traits for similar purposes.

• Convergent Evolution

• Analogous Structures

• Divergent Evolution

• Natural Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Features of different species that are similar in function but not necessarily in structure.

• Speciation

• Vestigial Structures

• Homologous Structures

• Analogous Structures

The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat/ecosystem.

• Evolution

• Biodiversity

• Convergent Evolution

• Adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-5