Natural Selection

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6. organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring
8. sudden variation in one or more characteristics caused by a change in a gene
9. adaptations that prevent detection and/or recognition
11. develop gradually
12. different in some ways

1. traits that can be passed down allow organisms to adapt to the environment better than other organisms of the same species
2. system of ideas intended to explain something
4. if an environment changes, the traits that enhance survival in that environment will also gradually change
5. the "principle by which each slight variation [of a trait], if useful, is preserved
7. Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
10. the transfer of genetic sequences from one generation to the next