| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Evolution | The gradual change in traits over time |
| Natural Selection | organisms best suited to environment survive and reproduce |
| Variation | anything that makes an organism different from others |
| Adaptation | A beneficial variation |
| Mutation | permanent change in DNA |
| Extinction | when no more species exist |
| competition | the fight over resources |
| population | a group of the same organisms |
| fossil | a sedimentary stone with an imprint of an organism |
| Darwin | studies variation in the beaks of finches |
| Lamarck | thought non-inherited traits were passed to offspring |
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