Genes & Traits
What is a gene?
The variety of different traits that individuals in a population possess
What is the gene pool?
Evolution that occurs simultaneously among two different species that rely on one another; evolution in symbiotic relationships
What is coevolution?
The number of individuals of a certain species present in a specific location
What is a population?
The color of an individual
What is a trait?
An organism’s ability to survive and reproduce to pass genes and traits onto future generations
What is fitness?
The percent of the population that has a certain gene
What is gene frequency?
Evolution in which organisms evolve adaptations with different evolutionary pathways for the same function that results in analogous structures
What is convergent evolution?
The proportion of a population of a species that remains alive after a specific period of time
What is the survival rate?
Some moths are lighter colored, while some are darker
What is variation/phenotypic variation?
An inherited trait that increases a species' fitness
What is an advantageous trait?
Differences in different individuals of the same species possess
What is variation?
The term for the process of species becoming less similar overtime as they adapt to their different environments
What is divergence?
The region and its biotic and abiotic features that influence how a species evolves
What is an ecosystem?
Green colored beetles can blend in better to the surrounding grass
A specific characteristic that can be inherited and passed on in organisms
What is a trait?
Differences in the physical traits of individuals of the same species
What is phenotypic variation?
Evolution in which organisms with similar structures evolve to have different uses for these structures based on their environments
What is divergent evolution?
The way that different organisms are organized in a certain region
What is distribution?
Yucca plants begin to purposefully place pollen on the stigma of the fig so that Yucca moths can more easily access it and know where to find it
What is coevolution