Evolution - Terms

Modify/adjust/make something suitable to new conditions

Process where different kinds of living organisms are believed to have developed from earlier forms during Earth’s history

Organisms that are well-adapted to their environment have a higher likelihood of surviving and reproducing.

System where energy and matter are transferred between living organisms and non-living parts of the environment

A person, typically one or more remote then a grandparent, from whom one is descended

Variety of plant and animal life in world/habitat

Offspring of two plants/animals of different species or varieties. These hybrids are sterile.

A different or distinct form of something

A different or distinct form of something

Inborn; natural

Characteristics or features of an organism that enhance its survival or reproductive success in a particular environment

Being alone or apart from others

A group of a particular species

Average time it takes for a species to reach reproductive maturity and produce the next generation

A way that an organism changes its behaviour to survive in its environment

Adjusting internal systems in response to their environment (occurs in cells, tissues, organs)

Structural or physical features of an organism that enhance its survival and reproduction in a specific environment

Selective breeding) process by which humans deliberately choose which organisms with specific traits are allowed to reproduce, thus influencing the genetic makeup of future generations

Surgical removal of an animal’s reproductive organ, making them unable to reproduce

Try to acquire or develop

Remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form

Process by which fossils are created

Method of dating geological specimens by determining the relative proportions of particular radioactive isotopes present in a sample

Represents collection of fossils that shows the remnants of past life on Earth