Natural Selection 2024

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

• selective breeding

• natural selection

• genetic engineering

• artificial selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism.

• Environment
• Ecosystem
• Habitat
• Biosphere

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

• Adaptive trait

• Evolved trait

• Variation
• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Any difference in traits between individual organisms.

• Phenotype

• gene

• distribution

• variation

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A result or change that happens because of an event or process

• cause

• effect
• resultant
• consequence

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A specific characteristic of an individual organism.

• Trait
• Property
• Characteristic
• Feature

A type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms

• Trait

• Proteins
• Genes

• Nucleic acids

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

A group of the same type of organism living in the same area

• herd
• tribe
• community
• population

An instruction for making a protein molecule

• Generation

• Direction

• Trait

• Gene

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

The number of individuals with each trait in a population

• Distribution

• Variation

• Population

• Generation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4