Vocabulary
Urbanization
Selection Pressure for Rats
Poison
Traits that are selected for are seen as: beneficial or not beneficial?
Beneficial
Types of traits or alleles
Variation
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True or False: Over many generations, the proportion of favorable traits in a population change decreases, and the proportion of less favorable traits increases
False: Over many generations, the proportion of favorable traits in a population changes increases, and the proportion of less favorable traits decreases
A trait that is better suited for an environment
Adaptation
Selection Pressure for Juncos
Human Interaction (limited space/food)
A random formation of a new trait or a change in genetics
Mutation
Process through which populations change / adapt
Natural Selection
Selection Pressure for Hawksbeard
Fragmentation
A random mutation that is beneficial to a population is going to be . . .
Inherited
A term to describe an organism's ability to survive or being more ____ for the environment
selection pressure
Who coined the term "Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics" and traveled the Galapagos?
Darwin