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Rise of the Superbugs Unit Vocabulary

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Natural Selection

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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).

Image: Natural Selection

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

A trait that helps a population survive

Image: Adaptation

A group organisms of the same species living in a particular area at the same time

Image: Population

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