camoflage - adaptations that allow an animal to blend in with its natural environment to avoid detection, adaptation - the process by which a species evolves over time to become better suited to its environme , natural selection - the process by which favourable characteristics become more common over time (survival of the fittest), species - a group of living organisms that can breed with others of the same type to produce fertile offspring, ancestor - a living thing from which something else has evolved. All life shares a common ancestor that lived around 3.5 billion years ago, primate - a group of mammals that includes humans, monkeys, lemurs and apes, acquired characteristics - a change to an organism during its lifetime, case by use, disease or other environmental influences, evolution - the gradual change in living things over many generations, due to changes in inherited characteristics, inherited characteristics - a characteristic that is passed down from parents to offspring through genes, gene - part of the DNA inside cells, through which inherited characteristics are passed down from parents to offspring, artificial selection - selectively breeding plants and animals to produce new species that possess certain characteristics,

Year 6 Evolution & Inheritance Vocabulary

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