Natural Selection Assessment

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

• speciation
• natural selection
• distribution
• generation

Everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

• environment
• species
• generation
• trait

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

• variation
• non-adaptive trait
• species
• adaptive trait

Any difference in traits between individual organisms

• distribution
• variation
• population
• generation

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

• adaptive trait
• prediction
• cause
• effect

A specific characteristic of an individual organism

• Protein molecule
• trait
• gene
• variation

A type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms

• gene
• variation
• chromosome
• protein molecule

A group of the same type of organism living in the same area

• generation
• species
• distribution
• population

An instruction for making a protein molecule

• cause
• protein molecule
• gene
• trait

The number of individuals with each trait in a population

• generation
• variation
• distribution
• species