Natural Selection Vocabulary

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What do you call a related organism from a previous generation?

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ancestor

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What is a way of hiding by looking the same as the background?

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camouflage

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

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What is an event that results in an outcome or a change?

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cause

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The presence of snakes creating an environment where high poison levels in newts becomes the adaptive trait is an example of a

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cause

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An adaptive trait depends on the (fill in the blank)

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environment

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

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Is being yellow always an adaptive trait in ostrilopes in a yellow environment?

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No, it only is when the ostrilopes have predators

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

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What is a feature?

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a characteristic that all members of a species have

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

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What does a histogram show?

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The distribution of traits within a population

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What is an instruction for making a protein molecule?

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a gene

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What is a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment?

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A non-adaptive trait

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