explore how short-and long-term environmental changes affect organisms...
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| Short-term environmental change | occurs quickly and affects organism immediately.
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| Long-term environmental change | occurs slowly over time and affects organisms over generations.
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| Traits | a distinct variant of a phenotypic characteristic of an organism that may be inherited, be environmentally determined or be a combination of the two.
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| Subsequent populations | the rate of how a population has been growing and how it has reached its peak in a certain amount of years. This can also be related to the census taking that occurs each year or so.
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| Organism | any contiguous living system, such as an animal, plant or bacterium.
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| Camouflage | hide or disguise the presence of (a person, animal, or object)
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| Adaptation | is a trait with a current functional role in the life of an organism that is maintained and evolved by means of natural selection.
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| Population | all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding.
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| Mutation | a permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA or other genetic elements
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| Tolerance | the capacity of an organism to endure the effects of a poison or other substance, esp after it has been taken over a prolonged period
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| Biodiversity | the number of different species of plants and animals in an area.
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