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Natural Selection

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