Quiz Flashcards
What is a group of the same type of organism living in the same area?
Population
Natural selection is the _______________ by which the _______________ of traits in population changes over many generations.
Process, Distribution
What is an instruction for making a protein molecule?
Genes
The traits present and the number of individuals with each trait can describe what?
Population
What is the number of individuals with each trait in a population called?
Distribution
Fill in the blanks: A Generation is a group of individuals born and _______________ at about the same time.
Living
What determines if a trait is adaptive?
Environment
On a histogram, what is represented by the width of the histogram?
Variation
The traits that exists in a population determine which traits can become more ____________ over many generations.
Common
A trait is Non-Adaptive if it makes it _________ likely that an individual will ____________ in a specific environment.
Less, Survive
What determines an organism’s traits?
Genes
Individuals with adaptive traits are more likely to do what two things?
Survive and reproduce
What is a result or change that happens because of an event or process?
Effect
What is an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know?
Prediction
What is a specific characteristic of an individual organism?
Trait
