Natural Selection

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What evidence supports the theory that all 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands arose out of a single species from the mainland of South America?

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The DNA of the finches on the islands is more similar to each other than to any single species in South America

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What happened to the beaks of the finches during the drought?

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The average beak depth increased by 1-2 mm based on the availability of food 

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Which describes natural selection?

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The best adapted individuals survive and reproduce, which passes their genes onto the next generation.

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Which color of butterfly would be worst adapted to its environment?

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yellow

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Changes in a species over generations, due to changes in the environment

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Adaptation

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A random and permanent change to a gene

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Mutation

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A yellow morph and green morph of an insect lives in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:

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the green population to increase and the yellow to decrease

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Reason for similar arm bones in humans, birds, whales, and lizards.

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They have a common ancestor

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An anatomical feature that no longer seems to have a purpose in the current form of an organism

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Vestigial structure

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Homologous

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