ECOLOGY & INTERACTIONS
Clue: The struggle between organisms for limited resources like food or space.
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What is COMPETITION?
Clue: An inherited trait that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is ADAPTATION?
Clue: A developing organism formed after fertilization.
What is EMBRYO?
$100$200$300$400$500Clue: Data or observations used to support an idea.
What is EVIDENCE?
Clue: This term describes the gradual change in a species over time.
What is EVOLUTION?
Clue: Ways organisms affect each other and their environment.
What are INTERACTIONS?
Clue: The process where organisms with helpful traits reproduce more successfully.
What is NATURAL SELECTION?
Clue: A group of organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring.
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What is SPECIES?
Clue: To suggest a possible explanation that can be tested.
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WHAT IS HYPOTHESIZE?
Clue: A preserved remain or trace of an organism from the past.
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What is FOSSIL?
Clue: When two species evolve in response to each other over time.
What is COEVOLUTION?
Clue: How well an organism survives and reproduces in its environment.
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What is FITNESS?
Clue: A molecule made from genes that performs many functions in cells.
What is PROTEIN?
Clue: A well-tested explanation supported by many experiments.
What is THEORY?
Clue: The complete collection of fossils that tells us about life long ago.
What is FOSSIL RECORD?
Clue: The movement of genetic material from one organism or place to another.
What is TRANSFER?
Clue: A type of natural selection based on attracting mates.
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What is SEXUAL SELECTION?
Clue: The process where gene information is used to make proteins.
What is EXPRESSION?
Clue: A natural process that explains how something works.
What is MECHANISM?
Clue: When a species no longer exists anywhere on Earth.
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What is EXTINCT?
Clue: When organisms compete and interact in ecosystems it can drive this major biological process.
What is EVOLUTION?
Clue: A change in DNA that may produce a new trait.
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What is MUTATION?
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Clue: A theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free-living bacteria.
What is ENDOSYMBIOSIS?
Clue: Something happening without a specific pattern or plan.
What is RANDOMLY?
Clue: Body structures in different organisms that are similar because they came from a common ancestor.
What is HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES?