VOCAB #6: Natural Selection

The selection and breeding of organisms for desired characteristics

• selective breeding

• natural selection

• adaptation

• embryology

An adaptation in which one species looks like another species.

• variation

• mimicry

• adaptation

• camouflage

An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing in a particular environment.

• natural selection

• mimicry

• adaptation

• camouflage

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Person who studies plants and animals by observing them.

• naturalist

• variation

• transcription

• translation

Process by which populations of organisms with variations that help them survive in their environments live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than those that do not have the variations

• variation

• adaptation

• selective breeding

• natural selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Adaptation that enables species to blend in with their environments

• camouglage

• natural selection

• mimicry

• selective breeding

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A slight difference in an inherited trait among individual members of species.

• homologous structure

• variation

• adaptation

• camouflage

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Body parts that perform a similar function but differ in structure.

• vestigial structure

• adaptation

• analogous structure

• homologous structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Body parts of organisms that are similar in structure and position but different in function.

• analogous structure

• natural selection

• vestigial structure

• homologous structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Body part that has lost its original function through evolution

• vestigial structure

• embryology

• homologous structure

• analagous structure