Evolution Vocabulary

A change in an organism’s DNA

• Mutation

• Evolution

• Selective Breeding

• Adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Group whose members can interbreed

• Generation

• Species

• Speciation

• Offspring

The process in which inherited characteristics within a population change over generations such that new species sometimes arise

• Evolution

• Mutation

• Selective Breeding

• Adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A distinguishing feature of your genetic code

• Mutation

• Generation

• Variation

• Trait

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The human practice  of breeding animals or plants that have certain desired traits

• Evolution

• Selective Breeding

• Reproduce

• Natural Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-5

A distinguishing quality, trait or feature

• Adaptation

• Characteristic

• Variation

• Offspring

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds

• Finch

• Darwin

• Galapagos

• Species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection

• Galapagos

• Species

• Finch

• Darwin

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The process of adjusting or conforming to new conditions

• Speciation

• Mutation

• Characteristic

• Adaptation

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Receive from a predecessor

• Reproduce

• Characteristic

• Trait

• Inherit

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2