Evolution

2. DOMESTICATION: The process of taming an animal or plant for human use.
3. SELECTIVE BREEDING: Another term for artificial selection.
5. The struggle between organisms for food, water, or territory.
7. TRAIT: A specific characteristic of an individual, like eye color or leaf shape.
8. EXTINCTION: When all members of a species have died out.
9. GENES: Units of heredity passed from parents to offspring.
12. VARIATION: The natural differences in traits between individuals of the same species.
13. The passing of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another.
14. The formation of a new and distinct species in the course of evolution.
15. ANCESTOR: An ancestor shared by two or more descendant species.
16. SELECTION: The process where organisms best suited to their environment survive and reproduce.

1. POPULATION: A group of individuals of the same species living in the same area.
2. FITNESS: An organism's ability to survive and produce offspring.
3. The process by which populations change over long periods of time.
4. MUTATION: A random change in DNA that can create new traits.
6. The remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago.
8. SELECTION: When humans choose specific traits they want in plants or animals.
10. A group of similar organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring.
11. ADAPTATION: A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
12. HOMOLOGOUS: Structures in different species that are similar because of common ancestry.