Natural Selection Flashcards
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Natural selection
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A process in which an organism is more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the species because it possesses a certain inherited variation.
2
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Key points of natural selection: (4)
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1) Due to variation in the features of an organism
2) It is more likely to survive
3) and reproduce
4) passes their characteristics to the next generation
3
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Evolution
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A change in one or more characteristics of a population over a long period of time.
Natural selection causes evolution.
-> discovered: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel
