Adaptations of Species Vocab

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Group of interacting individuals of the same species in a specific area.

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Population

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Characteristic of an organism; can be genetic or required.

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Trait

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Study of internal & external functions of living systems.

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Physiology

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Occurrence of an organism, trait, or gene in multiple forms.

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Variation

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Artificial selection through deliberate breeding for desired traits in plants/animals.

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Selective Breeding

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Slowed physiological state to survive cold or food scarcity.

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Hibernation

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Process where a population improves fit to its environment by increasing beneficial allele frequencies.

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Adaptation

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Movement to favorable geographical regions

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Migration

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Process where organisms with favorable traits produce more successful offspring, making those traits more common.

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Natural Selection

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Organisms of the same species at the same descent level from a common ancestor; a parent is one generation, and its offspring are the next.

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Generation