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Mo5-L3a: What is Natural Selection?
Physical Animal Adaptations Key Concept
What is Natural Selection?
Describe three types of adaptations.
Camouflage Mimicry
Body Coverings Gills
Behavioral Animal Adaptations
Hibernation Defense
Locomotion Migration
SUMMARY
What is Natural Selection?
Natural selection occurs when individuals with An adaptation is an inherited trait that
traits that better suit the environment survive increases an organism’s chance of surviving
longer and reproduce more successfully than and reproducing in an environment.
individuals without the traits.
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