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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