Natural Selection Vocab

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Biotic

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Any living part of the environment with which an organism might interact.

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Abiotic

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Physical or nonliving factor that shapes an ecosystem.

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Natural Selection

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Process by which organisms that are most suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest.

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Adaptation

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Heritable characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in an environment

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Population

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Group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area

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Speciation

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The process by which new species are created

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Fitness

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An organism's ability to pass its genetic material to its offspring