Natural selection - A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits., Evolution - Descent with modification; the idea that living species are descendants of ancestral species that were different from the present-day ones; also defined more narrowly as the change in the genetic composition of a population from generation to generation., Fitness - An organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in a given environment., Competition - A -/- interaction that occurs when individuals of different species compete for a resource that limits the survival and reproduction of each species., Biotic factors - Living components of an ecosystem that shape the environment. Includes the organism, their interactions, and waste. , Abiotic factors - Nonliving physical and chemical properties of an environment., Selective pressures - Environmental factors that influence which organisms survive and reproduce, Adaptations - Inherited characteristic of an organism that enhances its survival and reproduction in a specific environment., Phenotype - The observable physical and physiological traits of an organism, which are determined by its genetic makeup., Genotype - The genetic makeup, or set of alleles, of an organism., Artificial selection - The selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals to encourage the occurrence of desirable traits., Biogeography - The scientific study of the past and present geographic distributions of species.,

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