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Natural Selection
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Population | A group of the same type of organism living in the same area. |
| Trait | A specific characteristic of an individual organism. |
| Generation | A group of individuals born and living at about the same time. |
| Variation | Any difference in traits between individual organisms. |
| Distribution | The number of individuals with each trait in a population. |
| Adaptive | A trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment. |
| Non-Adaptive | A trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment. |
| Environment | Everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism. |
| Prediction | An idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know. |
| Cause | An event or process that leads to a result or change. |
| Effect | A result or change that happens because of an event or process. |
| Gene | An instruction for making a protein molecule. |
| Protein Molecule | A type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms. |
| Natural Selection | The process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations. |