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| Adaptation | a group of organisms can survive their environment better by changing their genetic makeup to better survive and reproduce |
| Environmental Factors | any thing, living or nonliving, that influences/effects living organisms |
| Genetic Factors | things that are presented/shown from the specific gene carried by a single organism |
| Growth | (characteristic of life) increasing in size and development of an organism |
| Organism | any living (biotic) thing |
| Allele | different version of a gene (different characteristic) |
| Asexual Reproduction | reproduction that needs only one organism (parent) |
| Chromosome | a single piece of DNA that holds many traits |
| Gene | basic unit of heredity (passing traits to the next generation) that makes up DNA (all info about you) |
| Genetic Information | Information in DNA that tells what the traits of something are going to be (height, hair color, etc.) |
| Genetic Variation | an organism, trait, or gene in more than one form (hair color, eye color, etc.) |
| Inherited Traits | a characteristic (vocab from characteristics of life) that is passed from parent to offspring |
| Offspring | a new organism made by one or more parents |
| Sexual Reproduction | reproduction having two parents whose genetic material is combined to make a new organism different from either parent |
| Variation | an organism, trait, or gene in more than one form (hair color, eye color, etc.) |
| Punnett Square | a chart showing possible traits between two parents that can be passed on to offspring |
