Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Evolution and Natural Selection ~ NGSS Link LS4.C-H.2

Natural selection leads to adaptation, that is, to a population dominated by organisms that are anatomically, behaviorally, and physiologically well suited to survive and reproduce in a specific environment. That is, the differential survival and reproduction of organisms in a population that have an advantageous heritable trait leads to an increase in the proportion of individuals in future generations that have the trait and to a decrease in the proportion of individuals that do not.

Items associated with this NGSS statement in this project (Original Project) and key idea (When inherited traits are favorable…)
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EN023001	When a new predator is introduced into a population of lizards, the lizards with the traits that help them avoid the predator are more likely to survive and reproduce than the others.
EN030002	Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics when a few individual resistant bacteria survive and reproduce, passing their resistance on to the next generation.