Adaptations and Natural Selection Vocab Quiz

A pair of contradictory statements where one statement is accepted and the other rejected.

An individual animal, plant or single-celled life form.

One of six groups of organisms that share similar characteristics with other that are also in that group.

A tool used to determine the identity of things in the natural world

True bacteria, prokaryotic, unicellular, autotrophs and heterotroph, spherical or rod-shaped, and found in soil, rocks, oceans, snow and living organisms.

Multicellular, eukaryotes, all heterotrophs – consumers; Ex: yeast (A), mushrooms (B), ringworm (C).

The surrounding or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives.

Characteristics that are passed on to offspring (inherited) from parents

Organisms engineered to contain foreign DNA that the organism could not obtain in traditional breeding which is usually done to introduce a beneficial trait.

A body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in in its environment that is developed through natural selection.