Natural Selection Vocabulary

A process in nature through which living organisms adapt and change in response to an environmental condition

• Biological Evolution
• Genetic Variation
• Natural selection
• Selective Breeding (artificial selection)

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The selection and breeding of organisms for desired traits

• Biological evolution
• Cloning
• Natural selection
• Selective Breeding (artificial selection)

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Slight difference in an inherited trait of an organism

• Gene Therapy
• Genetic Modification
• Genetic Variation
• Selective Breeding (artificial selection)

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An inherited trait (Wings, Thick Fur, Camouflage, Hibernation) that increases the chance of survival in its environment

• Adaptation
• Analogous structures
• Homologous structures
• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Change in DNA; can be beneficial, neutral, or harmful & cause differences in organisms

• Adaptation
• Analogous structures
• Homologous structures
• Mutation

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Record of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth

• Body fossil
• Fossil Record
• Natural selection
• Trace fossil

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Inherited trait that increases chance for survival

• Biological evolution
• Desired Traits
• Gene Therapy
• Mutation

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Event that occurs when the last individual organism of a species dies

• Cloning
• Embyology
• Extinction
• Mimicry

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The change over time in populations of related organisms

• Biological evolution
• Natural selection
• Cloning
• Selective Breeding (artificial selection)

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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A process in which a cell, cell product, or organism is copied from an original source.

• Biological evolution
• Cloning
• Natural Selection
• Selective Breeding (artificial selection)

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