Natural Selection - 8th Grade

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Who was Charles Darwin?

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Wrote the theory of evolution

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What did Darwin call the ability of an organism to survive?

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fitness

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Darwin began to formulate his concept of evolution by natural selection after...

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observations of many species plants and animals while aboard the H.M.S Beagle

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Does evolution by natural selection work best on a population with no variation?

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False

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Which color line represents survival of the fittest? Options: Orange, Grey, Blue

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Blue

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Which of the following animals is not yet extinct?

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Front

Which of the following animals would struggle to adapt in a desert environment?

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Front

Disadvantage of artificial selection?

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There is a possibility of genetic mutation

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Which represents homologous structures?

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Right

Front

Which of these is a population?

Finches

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White-Tailed Deer

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Finches in the Galapagos

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Rhinoceroses

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Finches in the Galapagos