Amplify Natural Selection Vocabulary Quiz

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

• ancestor

• adaptive trait

• non-adaptive trait

• distribution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a related organism from a previous generation

• DNA

• mutation

• ancestor

• natural selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a way of hiding by looking the same as the background

• cause

• effect

• gene

• camouflage

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

an event or process that leads to a result or change

• cause

• effect

• distribution

• population

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a long piece of DNA that contains many genes

• species

• effect

• variation

• chromosome

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

the number of individuals with each trait in a population

• distribution

• gene version

• mutation

• natural selection

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NGSS.HS-LS3-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of ADN

• inherit

• environment

• variation

• DNA

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

• cause

• effect

• environment

• feature

everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

• environment

• generation

• histogram

• nymph

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a characteristic that all members of a species have

• organism

• gene

• population

• feature

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2