Amplify Evolutionary History Vocabulary

to receive genes from a parent

• inherit

• mutation

• limb

• ancestor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

an organism’s arm, leg, or wing

• limb

• body structure

• mutation

• organisms

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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

• population

• environment

• related

• body structure

everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

• environment

• evolution

• diagnose

• fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• speciation

• adaptive trait

• evolution

• shared structures

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria

• organism

• paleontologist

• species

• diagnose

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

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

• generation

• common ancestor population

• descendant species

• stability

sharing a common ancestor population

• related

• speciation

• mutation

• trait

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group

• histogram

• inherit

• organism

• trait

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

• natural selection

• organisms

• evolutionary time

• speciation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4