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Adaptation 7th Grade

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Species   A group of organisms that possess similar genes and traits which no other group possesses.  
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Genetic Variation   Slight differences in an organism's traits that are considered normal.  
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Phenotype   The physical appearance, behavior or trait of an organism.  
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Trait   One form of a visible characteristic or behavior determined by a particular allele.  
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Allele   Different forms of the same gene that contain slightly different genetic information for slightly different traits.  
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Dominant   An allele that will produce a trait that masks another (recessive) trait for the same characteristic.  
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Recessive   An allele that produces a trait that is masked by a dominant trait.  
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Genotype   The genes that determine an organism's phenotype.  
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Environment   An organism's physical surroundings, such as food supply, soil, weather, water, trees, and mountains.  
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Adaptation   An increase in the proportion of the individuals of a species that possess a necessary trait, allowing the species to survive a change in an environmental factor.  
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Extinct   When all individual organisms of a species have died.  
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Environmental Pressure   A change in an organism's environment that selects for organisms with slight differences in a trait that give that organism a survival or reproductive advantage.  
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Natural Selection   Sometimes called "Survival of the Fittest."  
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Fossil   The remains of an organism, often its bones that are left after it has died.  
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Paleontologist   A scientist who uses fossils to study organisms that once existed but are now extinct.  
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