Amplify Natural Selection Chapter 1 review

Front

What is a specific characteristic of an individual organism?

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Trait

Front

What is a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment?

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Adaptive trait

Front

How did the cactuses evolve from 1970 to 2015?

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Medium spine size became a non-adaptive trait.

Front

What is a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group?

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Histogram

Front

What do you call an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food?

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Prey

Front

What is the term for the process by which organisms change over time through variations and natural selection?

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Evolution

Front

What is the term for the genetic makeup of an organism?

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Genotype

Front

What is the observable physical or biochemical characteristics of an organism?

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Phenotype

Front

What is the term for a change in the DNA sequence that can lead to variation in traits?

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Mutation

Front

What do you call the organisms that hunt other animals for food?

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Predators