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| Adapted | Refers to an organism that has inherited characteristics that make it suited to its environment. |
| Adaptive characteristics | Inherited characteristics that have evolved in a population because they give individuals a survival advantage. |
| Adaptive value | The extent to which a particular inherited trait makes an organism more suitable to its environment. |
| Evolution | Over many generations the characteristics of a population change. |
| Evolutionary change | The change in genetic make-up of a organism that occurs over generations. |
| Natural Selection | “Survival of the fittest.” |
| Overproduction | States that each generation produces far more offspring than can possible survive. |
| Selection | “Environmental factors (predators |
| Species | A group of individuals that can breed with each other. |
| Struggle for survival | The effort individuals exert to stay alive. |
| Lamarck | Believed in the “inheritance of acquired traits” and the “use and disuse” theories of evolution. |
| Darwin | Came up with the theory of natural selection to describe evolution. |
| Dichotomous key | Guide for identifying or organizing things. |
| Carrying Capacity | Maximum number of individuals or a particular species that an ecosystem can support long term. |
| Extinction | The disappearance forever of a species. |
