Beneficial traits being seen more often in a population

• Adaptation

• Fitness

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Drift

Any change in behavior or appearance that increases survival

• Fitness

• Mutation

• Genetic Variation

• Adaptation

How often you pass on your genes, or reproduce

• Gene Pool

• Fitness

• Genetic Variation

• Gene flow

All the possible genes within a population

• Gene Pool

• Allele

• Genetic variation

• Natural Selection

Variation of a gene; example: brown eyes

• Non-Random Mating

• Mutation

• Adaptation

• Allele

The movement of genes into or out of a population; example: migration

• Genetic Drift

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Variation

• Gene Flow

A random chance event that shrinks the population; example: forest fire

• Non-Random Mating

• Genetic Drift

• Natural Selection

• Gene flow

The differences, or variety, in DNA within a population

• Mutation

• Gene pool

• Genetic Variation

• Traits

Any change, good or bad, in DNA

• Speciation

• Allele

• Mutation

• Fitness

Mating with individuals based on appearance or convenience of location

• Gene Flow

• Non-random mating

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Selection