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Biodiversity
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Natural Selection | The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring |
| Evolution | The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. |
| Artificial Selection | It's selective breeding where people choose the outcome of what type of organism or animal they want to make. |
| Variation | Individuals in a population differ from one another. |
| Heritability | Variations are inherited from parents. Tall animals produce tall animals, and short animals produce short animals. |
| Overproduction | Populations produce more offspring than can survive. |
| Reproductive Advantage | Some variations allow the organism that possesses them to have more offspring than the organism that does not possess them. |
| Fitness | The ability to survive and reproduce. |
| Adaptation | Is a characteristic that increases fitness. |