Evolution - The change in traits of a population over successive generations (a long time), Natural Selection - The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring., Fitness - An organisms ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment., Adaptation - A body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its environment., Selective Breeding - The process by which humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits., Charles Darwin - Known as the "Father of Evolution", Theory of Evolution - Theory that states that species change over time. Living things evolve in response to changes in their environment., Homologous Structure - Body parts of different organisms that have similar structure but not necessarily a similar function., Analogous Structure - Body parts with similar function but not a similar structure., DNA - Deoxyribonucleic Acid- material that carries genetic information in a cell., Gene - Carry the information that determines your traits., Inherited - Passed down in DNA from one generation to the next., Mutation - The changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of single base units in DNA, Offspring - The immediate descendants of an organism., Population - A group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area., Trait - Characteristics that are passed to you (inherited) from your parents., Variation - The presence of differences in sequences of genes between individual organisms of a species., Diversity - Differences in traits in organisms in a population., Organism - An individual animal, plant or single-celled life form., Environment - The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal or plant live.,

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