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Natural Selection

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  • The ability for an organism to blend in with its surrounds to avoid being seen is called?
    Camaflauge
  • Looking or acting like another organism as a defense mechanism is called?
    Mimicry
  • The Process by which individudals that are better fit for their environment will survive and reproduce is called?
    Natural Selection
  • Anything Behavioral or Structural that helps an organism to survive and reproduce is called?
    Adaptation
  • A group of organisms that can reproduce and create fertile offspring?
    Species
  • When an organism produces more offspring than the environment can support?
    Overproduction
  • A distant relative or an oganism, grandparent or great grandparent is called ?
    Ancestor
  • What caused the Peppered Moth to adapt to the environment?
    Polution changed the Environment
  • Structures that have no apparent function and appear to be residual parts from a past ancestor are called?
    Vestigle Structures
  • The Change of a species over a long period of time is called?
    Evolution
  • The Change in a species over time?
    Evoultion
  • Preserved remains of once living organisms is called
    Fossil
  • A group of organsisms of the same species that live in the same area are considered a?
    Population
  • Body Parts on two separte spieces that have similar function and structure are called?
    Homologous
  • The struggle between two or more living organisms for the same resources is called?
    Competition
  • What are the series of events that are needed for Natural Selection?
    Mutation -->Variation-->Adaptation-->Natural Selection
  • Permanent change in the DNA of an organsism
    Mutation
  • What is any difference in a trait between organisms of the same species?
    Variation