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4-3: Evo of Pop
Evolution of Populations
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| advantageous heritable trait | A helpful characteristic that an organism is born with and can pass on to its offspring. This trait gives the organism a better chance to survive and reproduce in its environment. |
| Variation | the differences between individuals in a group. These differences can be in looks, behavior, or how their bodies work. |
| disease | something that makes the body not work properly. It can be caused by germs, genetics, or other problems in the body. |
| infection | when harmful germs like bacteria or viruses get into the body and start to grow, often making you feel sick. |
| microevolution | change in the frequency of a trait for a population |
| gene pool | all of the inheritable variations for a trait in a population |
| genetic drift | chance events that can cause a traits frequency to fluctuate unpredictably from one generation to the next |
| gene flow | when individual or their gamete (such as plant pollen) move into or out of a population (migration), the frequency of traits can change randomly |
| gene frequencies | how often a specific allele or version of a gene occurs in a population |