Natural Selection and Adaptation

If an organism adapts to its environment, how does this affect its chance of survival?

• increases it

• decreases it

• doesn't affect it

features passed from one generation to the next

• inherited traits

• acquired traits

to change something so it is useful for a new purpose

• adapt

• behavior

• species

• evolution

occurs when organisms are better adapted to their environment and more likely to survive

• evolution

• Galapagos Islands

• natural selection

DNA sequences of all genes of an organism

• embryo

• molecular clocks

• genomes

preserved remains of animals, plants, and organisms from the past

• gene pool

• fossils

• paleontologist

complete set of genes and alleles within a population

• gene pool

• fossils

• paleontologist

traits or characteristics of an individual

• phenotype

• diversity

• genotype

Is the trait below inherited or acquired?

SCARS

• inherited traits

• acquired traits

traits developed over a lifetime

• inherited traits

• acquired traits