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What term describes the idea that individuals in a population differ from one another?
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variation
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What term describes variation passed from parents to offspring?
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inheritance
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What term describes individuals with certain traits are more successful than others at surviving and reproducing in their environment?
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differential reproductive success
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What term describes any change in DNA sequence?
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mutation
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Which mutations are not acted upon by natural selection?
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neutral mutations
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Which types of traits are observable, influenced by genotype and the environment?
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phenotype
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Natural selection is a process by which the characteristic of a _______________ --NOT those of an individual--change over time. However, natural selection acts on _________________.
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POPULATION; individuals
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Selection favors changes that are immediately ____________.
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beneficial
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What term describes the idea that a given phenotype can produce a number of different phenotypes across an environmental gradient?
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complex relationship
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