Vocabulary
Environment & Distribution
Natural Selection & Reproduction
Mutation & Traits
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100

A group of individuals of the same species that live in a particular geographic area and can interbreed with each other.

What is a population?

100

A starting population has a low fur Ostrilopes with medium variation, as the temperature changed warmer, the ending population resulted in this over generations.

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What is medium fur traits and medium variation?

100

This is typically the time frame in which Natural Selection occurs.

What is a long time?

100

Hibernation is an example of this type of adaptation.

What is behavioral adaptation?

100

The process by which humans use selective breeding to change a species.

What is artificial breeding?

200

The number of individuals with each trait in a population.

What is distribution

200

A histogram showing high variation shows this.

What is many different traits?

200
Reproduction causes this to happen to traits between generations.

What is traits being passed down from parents to offspring?

200

The two ways in which mutations occur.

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What is inherited and acquired?

200

A result or change that happens because of an event or process.

What is effect?

300

Any difference in traits between individual organisms.

What is variation?

300

This might make an individual more or less likely to survive (depending on their phenotypes, genotypes, or behaviors).

What is environment?

300

These are the four principles of natural selection.

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What is..

1. Variation

2. Adaptation

3. Time

4. Selection

300

The physical characteristic of an organism as influenced by the genome and environmental factors.

What is phenotype?

300

This is the phenomenon where an organism evolves physical or behavioral traits that closely resemble another organism to gain survival advantages. Often a deception to predators and/or prey

What is mimicry?

400

A trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment.

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What is a non-adaptive trait?

400

The traits within a population determine this.

What is which traits become more common over many generations?

or

What are common traits?

400

Can an organism choose to evolve and change traits within their lifetime? 

No, organisms cannot choose to change their genes or traits.

400

Type of mutation (depending on environment) that reduces the organism's chance for survival and reproduction.

What is harmful mutations?

400

A type of natural selection that occurs when extreme traits are favored over intermediate traits.

What is disruptive selection?

500

A type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms.

What is a protein molecule?

500

This is what caused the newt population to become more poisonous.

What is an arms race with their primary predator, the garter snake?

What is the garter snake?

What is the result of the garter snake causing poison to be an adaptive trait?

500

Animal adaptations play a role in reproduction by allowing organisms to do this.

What is to better survive and pass on their genes to the next generation?

500

A change in a gene that results in a new trait.

What is a mutation?

500

This word means to stay alive.

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What is survive?

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