Vocabulary
A trait that helps organisms survive.
What is an adaptive trait?
What is camouflage?
The herbivore in the sim is called.
What is Ostrilopes?
What is no?
The brain of the cell.
What is the nucleaus?
What is an environment?
A group of organisms born and living during the same time period.
What is generation?
The process in which adaptive traits become more common in a species.
What is Natural Selection?
This is a nonliving thing in an environment.
What is abiotic?
These are instructions for proteins.
What is a gene?
The number of individuals with each trait in a population.
What is distribution?
This is a trait that does not help an organism survive.
What is non-adaptive?
I helped Charles Darwin travel to the Galapagos islands.
What is the Beagle?
This organelle builds proteins.
What is a ribosome?
The backbone of the DNA chain.
Having different traits or features in a group.
What is variation?
A change in the environment that caused the carnivores to die, in the sim.
What is climate or weather change?
The individual who discovered natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Offspring that have the same gene type are considered.
What is homozygous?
This is a sequence that holds all of an offspring's traits.
What is DNA?
A group of the same organisms living in the same area.
What is population?
This means the same structure or function in organisms.
What is analogous structure?
I discovered that peppered moths where part of natural selection in the 1900s.
Who is J.W. Tutt
Macro-molecules found in foods we eat.
What is amino acids?
These are the bases of all life.
Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine