Amplify Natural selection vocab

a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment.

• Adaptive Trait

• Nonadaptive trait

• population

• Genergation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a statement that something is true or is a fact.

• claim

• distribution

• cause

• effect

a statement that something is true or is a fact.

• refute

• cause

• effect

• claim

the number of individuals with each trait in a population.

• Trait

• Variation

• Population

• Distribution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a result or change that happens because of an event or process.

• Effect

• Cause

• Trait

• Variation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

• Natural selection

• Nonadaptive trait

• Environment

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

anything that can be used to show something exists.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Effect

• Trait

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

an instruction for making a protein molecule

• Gene

• Marker

• Blueprint

• Cause

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

group of individuals born and living at about the same time.

• Population

• Organisms

• Generation

• Individual

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations

• Evolution

• Mutation

• Adaptive Trait

• Natural selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4