Natural Selection

Question 1

Natural selection

Answer 1

A process in which an organism is more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the species because it possesses a certain inherited variation.

Question 2

Key points of natural selection: (4)

Answer 2

1) Due to variation in the features of an organism
2) It is more likely to survive
3) and reproduce
4) passes their characteristics to the next generation

Question 3

Evolution

Answer 3

A change in one or more characteristics of a population over a long period of time.
Natural selection causes evolution.

-> discovered: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel