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Natural Selection
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Charles Darwin | Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology |
| Migration | Migration is the movement of people, animals, or things from one place to another |
| Adaptation | adaptation is a heritable physical, physiological, or behavioral trait that has developed over generations via natural selection. |
| Habitat | A habitat is the natural environment or home where a plant, animal, or other organism lives |
| Natural selection | Natural selection is the process where organisms with heritable traits better suited to their environment survive longer and reproduce more |
| Hypothesis | A hypothesis is a proposed, testable explanation for a phenomenon, observation, or research question that has not yet been proven |
| Variation | variation is any change, difference, or deviation in condition, amount, level, form, or standard from a norm. |
| Species | A species is the basic unit of biological classification and taxonomic rank that sits immediately below a genus |
| Evolve | The word evolve means to develop gradually over time |
| Population | A population is the total number of inhabitants, organisms, or items of a particular group living or existing in a specific area |
| Predator | A predator is an organism that primarily obtains food by killing and consuming other organisms. |
| Prey | Prey is an animal that is hunted and killed by another animal for food. |
| Enviorment | An environment is the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, and influences that affect the growth, health, and survival of a living organism or system |
| Evolution | Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations |
| Decomposers | Decomposers are living organisms that break down dead plants, animals, and waste materials into simpler inorganic substances. |
| exstinction | Extinction is the complete and permanent disappearance of a species, plant, or animal from Earth |
| Climate | Climate is the long-term pattern of weather conditions in a specific region, typically averaged over a span of 30 years or more |
| Hibernate | A state of deep sleep or metabolic reduction that animals enter to survive cold winter months and food shortages |
| Biomes | A biome is a large, naturally occurring community of flora (plants) and fauna (animals) occupying a major habitat |
| Fitness (in natural selection) | Evolutionary fitness is an organism's ability to survive, find mates, and reproduce, which determines how many of its genes get passed to the next |
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