Natural Selection Amplify Test Review

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What is an offspring?

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An organism produced as a result of reproduction.

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What is variation?

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Any difference in traits between individual organisms.

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What is a generation?

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A group of individuals born and living at about the same time.

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What is a trait?

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A specific characteristic of an individual organism.

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What is Natural Selection?

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The process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations.

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What is adaptation?

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A trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment.

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What is evolution?

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The change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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What is a population?

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A group of the same type of organism living in the same area.

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What is a species?

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A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.

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What is genetic variation?

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Differences in DNA among individuals within a population.