Biology Flashcards

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Adaptation

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Adaptations are characteristics that help an organism to survive and reproduce.

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Competition

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Animals compete for food, water, space, shelter, minerals and mates to reproduce with.

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Environmental changes

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Plants and animals adapt to changes in their environments. This could be due to changes through fire, climate change, or disease, causing reduced food supplies.

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4
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Competition and adaptation

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Predator and prey species are interdependent,
One pop directly affects another pop

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5
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Variation

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Differences in characteristics

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6
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Inherited variation

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Characteristics that are passed on from parent to offspring.

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7
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Environmental variation

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Surroundings affect your characteristics

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8
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Can be affected by both

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Can be affected by both

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9
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Discontinuous Variation

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Can only result in certain values and is plotted on a bar chart

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10
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Continuous Variation

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Can take any value within a range and is to be plotted on a histogram.

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