Natural Selection 1
no longer in existence
What is extinct
A random change in a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
What is mutation
Cause
What is anything that produces a result, effect, or makes something happen
Prediction
What is an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
Fossil
What is a trace of a once living organism
A specific characteristic of an individual organism
What is trait
What is evolution
Effect
What is a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause
Non-adaptive trait
What is a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
Gene
What is an instruction for making a protein or molecule
A group of individuals born and living about the same time.
What is generation
a global, interactive network of scientists, researchers, and professionals working together to produce science
What is a scientific community
Scientific Argument
What is a reasoned, evidence-based claim that answers a scientific question or explains a phenomenon in the natural world
Distribution
What is a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
Adaptive Trait
What is a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment?
A group of the same type of organism living in the same area
What is population
The process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
What is natural selection
Evidence
What is the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
Enviornment
What is everything (living and non-living) that surrounds an organism
Variation
What is the difference in traits between individual organisms
What is species
a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
What is chromosome
Claim
What is a statement that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.
Protein Molecule
What is a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
Histogram
What is a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group