Basics
The theory that organisms with traits suited to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully.
What is Natural Selection?
When more offspring are produced than can survive, leading to competition for resources.
The type of adaptation shown by deer mice in the Sand Hills with light-colored fur.
Camouflage
This term describes a plant’s ability to produce seeds and survive through droughts.
Early Flowering
The medical treatment that has led to antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Antibiotics
The scientist who proposed the theory of natural selection in the 1850s.
Darwin
The competition for food, water, and space due to limited resources.
Competition
This environmental factor led to early-flowering field mustard plants in California.
Drought
The survival of bacteria resistant to antibiotics is an example of this process.
Natural Selection
The result of not completing a full course of antibiotics.
Increased Antibiotic Resistance
The process by which traits change over generations due to environmental changes.
Adapatation
The result of advantageous traits being passed on to future generations.
Survival and Reproduction
The genetic change that allowed deer mice in the Sand Hills to avoid predators.
Mutation
When bacteria survive antibiotic treatments due to inherited resistance.
Antibiotic Resistance
This happens when resistant bacteria survive and multiply.
Natural Selection
The differences among individuals within the same species.
Genetic Variation
The term for traits that increase an organism’s chance of survival in its environment.
Adaptations
The adaptation process that led to early-flowering field mustard over generations
Natural Selection
An adaptation that helps organisms blend into their environment
Camouflage
Why bacteria in people who rarely use antibiotics don’t develop resistance.
The mechanism driving the changes in traits within a population over time.
Natural Selection
When a species changes over time to better survive in its environment, it undergoes this.
Evolution
The reason why light-colored deer mice survive better in the Sand Hills.
They blend in
The change in deer mice fur color in response to soil color is an example of this.
Adaptation
The more often antibiotics are taken, the more chances bacteria have to do this.