Natural Selection Vocabulary

Any variation that makes an organism better suited to its environment

• Adaptation

• Mutation

• Evolution

• Variation

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The production of several species from one ancestral species

• Extinction

• Adaptive radiation

• Natural selection

• Species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The study of embryos and their development

• Gradualism

• Species

• Embryology

• Variation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

When the last individual of a species dies

• Variation

• Mutation

• Extinction

• Species

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Manipulations of genes either within a species or across species to create new products or applications

• Genetic engineering

• Natural selection

• Variation

• Evolution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-5

Hypothesis that describes evolution as a slow, ongoing process by which one species changes to a new species

• Adaptation

• Punctuated equilibrium

• Gradualism

• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Body parts that are similar in origin and structure

• Vestigial

• Homologous

• Analogous

• Embryology

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

A change in the gene sequence

• Variation

• Evolution

• Extinction

• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Theory that states that organisms with traits best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce

• Natural selection

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Variation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Hypothesis that says rapid evolution comes about when the mutation of a few genes results in the appearance of a new species over a short period of time

• Adaptive radiation

• Punctuated equilibrium

• Evolution

• Natural selection

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-5