Vocab 1
To change the frequencies of alleles in a population over time.
What is Evolve?
The reproductive process that involves one parent and produces offspring identical to the parent.
What is Asexual Reproduction?
All the genes in any population.
What is Gene Pool?
The reproductive process involving two parents whose genetic material is combined to produce a new organism different from themselves.
What is Sexual Reproduction?
A characteristic of an organism; can be genetic or acquired.
What is a Trait?
The mineralized remains of organisms, showing how long-dead organisms lived and how their bodies were structured.
What are Fossils?
The variety of gene combinations that exist within a population.
What is Genetic Variation?
What is Survival?
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring.
What is an Inherited Trait?
Product of Reproduction; a new organism produced by one or more parents.
What is an Offspring?
Process by which organisms with favorable traits produce more successful offspring than organisms with less-favorable traits, causing the favorable traits to become more common in the population.
What is Natural Selection?
A form of artificial selection where humans deliberately breed plants and animals for desired traits.
What is Selective Breeding?
A group of interacting individuals of the same species located in the same area.
What is a Population?
A distinctive mark, symbol, or logo left behind as an. impression.
What is an Imprint?
The process by which organisms produce more of their own kind.
What is Reproduction?
Earth material that is broken down by processes of weathering; can be eroded and deposited by the agents of water, wind, ice, and gravity.
What is Sediment?
A group of organisms with similar characteristics that are able to interbreed or exchange genetic material.
What is a Species?
The process by which genetic information generates a specific protein or trait.
What is an Expression?
The natural process or result of being slowly broken down or decomposed, chiefly by bacteria and fungi.
What is Decay?
A trait that is beneficial to an organism and will likely be chosen by natural selection.
What is a Favorable Trait?
A form of artificial selection where humans deliberately breed plants and animals for desired traits.
What is Selective Breeding?
Organisms of the same species that are at the same level of descent from a common ancestor; a parent is a member of one generation, and its offspring are members of the next generation.
What is Generation?
The science of how genetic information is transferred from parent to offspring.
What is Genetics?
The study of internal and external functions of living systems.
What is Physiology?
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring.
What is an Inherited Trait?