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Natural Selection
Organisms with more advantageous traits for their environment survive and reproduce more often (This causes traits in the population to change over time).
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Overproduction of offspring
Organisms produce more offspring than needed to sustain the population.
Image: Overproduction of offspring
Successful reproduction
The best adapted to their environment are likely to have many offspring that survive.
Image: Successful reproduction
Adaptation
A trait that helps a population survive
Image: Adaptation
Population
A group organisms of the same species living in a particular area at the same time
Image: Population
Trait
A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes.
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Genetic Variation
Any difference between individuals of the same species.
Image: Genetic Variation
Mutation
The process in which DNA changes result in new alleles
Image: Mutation
Extinct
When the last of a species dies
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Biological Fitness
A species that is most suited to survive in a certain type of environment.
Antiobiotic Resistance
the process by which a genetic mutation allows a bacterium cell to survive antibiotics intended to kill it
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Antibiotics
Chemicals that kill bacteria and inhibit their growth. Does not work on viruses.
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Allele
An alternative form of a gene (one member of a pair) that is located at a specific position on a specific chromosome that determine traits.
Image: Allele
Heredity
Genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next.
Image: Heredity
Competition
ecological interaction which leads to decreased population growth for both species
Image: Competition

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