Natural Selection Vocabulary and Main Ideas

A trait that makes it more likely for an individual to survive

• ancestor

• adaptive trait

• NON adaptive trait

• distribution

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A related organism from a previous generation

• environment

• ancestor

• natural selection

• NON adaptive trait

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a way of hiding by looking the same as the background

• camouflage

• species

• ancestor

• adaptive trait

the number of individuals with each trait in a population- ex. number of animals with long fur

• environment

• natural selection

• camouflage

• distribution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

everything living and nonliving that surrounds an organism

• environment

• distribution

• ancestor

• histogram

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a group of individual's born and living at about the same time

• natural selection

• camouflage

• generation

• NON adaptive trait

a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics are distributed within a group

(How many organisms have a trait)

• camouflage

• histogram

• generation

• offspring

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

• histogram

• natural selection

• generation

• adaptive trait

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive

• species

• survive

• NON adaptive trait

• adaptive trait

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

something in the environment that affects and individual's chances of surviving

• selection pressure

• species

• ancestor

• generation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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