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Natural Selection
Science Notes On Natural Selection
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adaptation | A change in an organism over time that helps it to survive in its environment |
| Behavoral | How living things react to the environment |
| Biodiversity | The variety and complexity of life on earth |
| Camouflage | Appearance that is designed for hiding in the environment |
| Competition | Living things striving for food, living space, mates, and other resources |
| Evolution | The process whereby new species arise from earlier species by accumulated changes |
| Functional | The way body functions are carried out |
| Fitness | The ability of a living thing to survive and reproduce in its environment |
| Natural Selection | The process by which individuals in a population inherit genes that allow them to survive and be re productively successful |
| Variation | Differences in individual living things from each other |
| Structural | Body structure |