Natural selection gallery Flashcards
adaptive trait
a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
Ancestor
a related organism from a previous generation
Camouflage
a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
Cause
an event or process that leads to a result or change
chromosome
a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
distribution
the number of individuals with each trait in a population
DNA
a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
effect
a result or change that happens because of an event or process
environment
everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
feature
a characteristic that all members of a species have
gene
an instruction for making a protein molecule
gene version
a specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule
generation
a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
histogram
a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
