Concepts of Evolution and Selection

Natural Selection

• Natural selection is a type of climate change.
• Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution.
• Natural selection only applies to plants.
• Natural selection is a process that occurs in isolation.

describes how reproductively successful an organism is in its environment.

Adaptation

• Adaptation is the process of adjustment to environmental changes.
• Adaptation is the act of changing one's diet.
• Adaptation refers to the process of evolution over millions of years.
• Adaptation is a type of animal behavior.

Artificial Selection

• Artificial selection only applies to wild animals.
• Artificial selection is a human-directed process of breeding for specific traits.
• Artificial selection is the same as genetic mutation.
• Artificial selection occurs naturally without human intervention.

The process by which new species occur and often occurs through geographic isolation, or separation of a species into smaller, isolated populations through distance and due to mutations.