Glossary
Below is a list of terms identified in this module.
- Adaptation
- heritable trait or behavior in an organism that aids in its survival and reproduction in its present environment
- Adaptive Radiation
- speciation when one species radiates out to form several other species
- Natural Selection
- reproduction of individuals with favorable genetic traits that survive environmental change because of those traits, leading to evolutionary change
- Species
- group of populations that interbreed and produce fertile offspring
- Variation
- genetic differences among individuals in a population
Glossary terms from OpenStax College Concepts of Biology licensed under CC-BY 3.0.
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