Vocabulary
Adaptation
Natural Selection
Life Science
Traits and Reproduction
100

A trait that helps organisms survive.

What is an adaptive trait?

100
This helped peppered moths avoid predators.

What is camouflage?

100

The herbivore in the sim is called. 

What is Ostrilopes?

100
Offspring share all the same genes as their parents. 

What is no?

100

The brain of the cell. 

What is the nucleaus?

200
Everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism. 

What is an environment?

200

A group of organisms born and living during the same time period. 

What is generation?

200

The process in which adaptive traits become more common in a species. 

What is Natural Selection?

200

This is a nonliving thing in an environment.

What is abiotic?

200

These are instructions for proteins. 

What is a gene?

300

The number of individuals with each trait in a population. 

What is distribution?

300

This is a trait that does not help an organism survive.

What is non-adaptive?

300

I helped Charles Darwin travel to the Galapagos islands. 

What is the Beagle?

300

This organelle builds proteins. 

What is a ribosome?

300

The backbone of the DNA chain.

What is sugar and phosphate?
400

Having different traits or features in a group. 

What is variation?

400

A change in the environment that caused the carnivores to die, in the sim. 

What is climate or weather change?

400

The individual who discovered natural selection.

Who is Charles Darwin?

400

Offspring that have the same gene type are considered. 

What is homozygous?

400

This is a sequence that holds all of an offspring's traits.

What is DNA?

500

A group of the same organisms living in the same area. 

What is population?

500

This means the same structure or function in organisms.

What is analogous structure?

500

I discovered that peppered moths where part of natural selection in the 1900s.

Who is J.W. Tutt

500

Macro-molecules found in foods we eat. 

What is amino acids?

500

These are the bases of all life. 

Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine

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