Natural Selection Vocab

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

• adaptive trait
• non-adaptive trait
• neutral trait
• variation

A way of hiding by looking the same as the background environment.

• camouflage
• distribution
• variation
• feature

a long piece of DNA that contains many genes

• chromosome
• feature
• trait
• histogram

any difference in traits between individual organisms

• variation
• species
• organisms
• offspring

a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait

• feature
• mutation
• inherit
• generation

a graph that shows how characteristics or values are distributed within a group

• distribution 
• histogram
• natural selection 
• prediction

the number of individuals with each trait within a population

• distribution
• inherit
• prediction
• DNA

A type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of

• DNA
• chromosome
• gene
• offspring

a specific characteristic of an individual organism 
ex: hair color

• trait 
• DNA
• chromosome 
• variation

an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food

• predator
• prey 
• species
• offspring