Jean - Baptiste Lamarck - French biologist who was the first to notice animals and plants changed to fit their environment, Charles Darwin - Scientist who studied evolution and realized that the strongest would survive and have more offspring , Natural Selection - Those plants and animals best suited to the environment will survive and have more offspring, Species - Plants or animals that have similar genes and look very similar, Gregor Mendel - Scientist who understood the traits passed down were made of genes which were made up of a special code, DNA, Genes - Are the specific traits in each plant or animal cell that gets passed down to the next generation , DNA - the specific code that makes up the gene or specific trait, Predator - An animal that eats other animals, Evolution - Changes that occur in the DNA of plants and animals that occur over a long time so they are better able to survive, Adapt - Changes plants and animals can make fairly quickly to survive a change in the environment, Speciation - When plants or animals changes so much over time it is basically a new plant or animal, Mutation - An unplanned or accidental change in the DNA, Vestigial Structure - A part of a plant or animal that is no longer useful, but still present, Camouflage - A plant or animal that blends into the surroundings, Mimicry - When an animal looks just like another plant or animal to confuse a predator, Artificial Selection - When scientists select for certain traits in a lab depending on what certain people want, Extinct - When a plant or animal dies off, and is not longer present anywhere on Earth, Cladogram - A diagram that shows how plants or animals are related, Ancestor - A plant or animal that came before, a long time ago, Node - Place on cladogram where lines intersect that indicates a common ancestor,

Evolution Vocabulary

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