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Standard - MST4: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
Key Idea Code - MST4.LE:
Key Idea - MST4.LE3: Individual organisms and species change over time.
Academic Level - MST4.E.LE3:
Performance Indicator - MST4.E.LE3B: Students observe that differences within a species may give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing.
Major Understandings - 3.2a : Individuals within a species may compete with each other for food, mates, space, water, and shelter in their environment.
Major Understandings - 3.2b : All individuals have variations, and because of these variations, individuals of a species may have an advantage in surviving and reproducing.