AncestorA relatedorganismfrom apreviousgenerationCauseAn event orprocess thatleads to a resultor change  EnvironmentEverything(living andnonliving) thatsurrounds anorganism  NaturalselectionThe process bywhich thedistribution of traitsin a populationchanges overmany generationsSurviveTo stayaliveGeneAninstructionfor making aproteinmoleculeCamouflageA way ofhiding bylooking thatsame as thebackgroundInheritTo receivegenes froma parent  VariationAny differencein traitsbetweenindividualorganismsGenerationA group ofindividuals bornand living atabout the sametime  PredictionAn idea aboutwhat mighthappen that isbased on whatyou already know  OffspringAn organismproduced asa result ofreproduction  PredatorAn animal thathunts and killsother animalsfor food  ProteinmoleculeA type of largemolecule thatperformsimportantfunctions insideorganismsTraitA specificcharacteristicof anindividualorganismDistributionThe number ofindividuals witheach trait in apopulation  OrganismsLiving things,such as plants,animals, andbacteria  EffectThe result orchange thathappensbecause of anevent or process  SelectionpressureSomething in theenvironment thataffects anindividual'schances ofsurviving  AdaptivetraitA trait that makesit more likely thatin individual willsurvive in aspecificenvironmentspeciesA group of organismsof the same kind (inone or morepopulations) that donot reproduce withorganisms from another group  FeatureA characteristicthat allmembers of aspecies have  HistogramA graph that usesbars to show howcharacteristics orvalues aredistributed within agroup  PopulationA group of thesame type oforganism livingin the samearea  ChromosomeA long pieceof DNA thatcontainsmany genes  PreyAn animal thatis hunted orkilled byanother animalfor food  MutationA random changeto a gene thatsometimesresults in a newtrait  Non-adaptivetraitA trait that makesit less likely thatan individual willsurvive a specificenvironment  DNAA type ofmolecule thatgenes arechromosomesare made of  AncestorA relatedorganismfrom apreviousgenerationCauseAn event orprocess thatleads to a resultor change  EnvironmentEverything(living andnonliving) thatsurrounds anorganism  NaturalselectionThe process bywhich thedistribution of traitsin a populationchanges overmany generationsSurviveTo stayaliveGeneAninstructionfor making aproteinmoleculeCamouflageA way ofhiding bylooking thatsame as thebackgroundInheritTo receivegenes froma parent  VariationAny differencein traitsbetweenindividualorganismsGenerationA group ofindividuals bornand living atabout the sametime  PredictionAn idea aboutwhat mighthappen that isbased on whatyou already know  OffspringAn organismproduced asa result ofreproduction  PredatorAn animal thathunts and killsother animalsfor food  ProteinmoleculeA type of largemolecule thatperformsimportantfunctions insideorganismsTraitA specificcharacteristicof anindividualorganismDistributionThe number ofindividuals witheach trait in apopulation  OrganismsLiving things,such as plants,animals, andbacteria  EffectThe result orchange thathappensbecause of anevent or process  SelectionpressureSomething in theenvironment thataffects anindividual'schances ofsurviving  AdaptivetraitA trait that makesit more likely thatin individual willsurvive in aspecificenvironmentspeciesA group of organismsof the same kind (inone or morepopulations) that donot reproduce withorganisms from another group  FeatureA characteristicthat allmembers of aspecies have  HistogramA graph that usesbars to show howcharacteristics orvalues aredistributed within agroup  PopulationA group of thesame type oforganism livingin the samearea  ChromosomeA long pieceof DNA thatcontainsmany genes  PreyAn animal thatis hunted orkilled byanother animalfor food  MutationA random changeto a gene thatsometimesresults in a newtrait  Non-adaptivetraitA trait that makesit less likely thatan individual willsurvive a specificenvironment  DNAA type ofmolecule thatgenes arechromosomesare made of  

Natural Selection - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. A related organism from a previous generation
    Ancestor
  2. An event or process that leads to a result or change
    Cause
  3. Everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
    Environment
  4. The process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
    Natural selection
  5. To stay alive
    Survive
  6. An instruction for making a protein molecule
    Gene
  7. A way of hiding by looking that same as the background
    Camouflage
  8. To receive genes from a parent
    Inherit
  9. Any difference in traits between individual organisms
    Variation
  10. A group of individuals born and living at about the same time
    Generation
  11. An idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
    Prediction
  12. An organism produced as a result of reproduction
    Offspring
  13. An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
    Predator
  14. A type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
    Protein molecule
  15. A specific characteristic of an individual organism
    Trait
  16. The number of individuals with each trait in a population
    Distribution
  17. Living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
    Organisms
  18. The result or change that happens because of an event or process
    Effect
  19. Something in the environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving
    Selection pressure
  20. A trait that makes it more likely that in individual will survive in a specific environment
    Adaptive trait
  21. A group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from an other group
    species
  22. A characteristic that all members of a species have
    Feature
  23. A graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
    Histogram
  24. A group of the same type of organism living in the same area
    Population
  25. A long piece of DNA that contains many genes
    Chromosome
  26. An animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
    Prey
  27. A random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
    Mutation
  28. A trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive a specific environment
    Non-adaptive trait
  29. A type of molecule that genes are chromosomes are made of
    DNA