Evolution

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Which of the following would represent a sudden environmental change? Options: Wildfire, Global Warming, Competition for food, Desert encroachment 

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Wildfire

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Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist? Options: Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, Isaac Newton

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Charles Darwin

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

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Natural Selection

Front

What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

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To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

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Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

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Mutations are a change in what?

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DNA

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Where humans have bred organisms together based on traits we like.

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Artificial Selection

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Genetic differences between organisms of the same species

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Variation

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Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

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homologous structures

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Study of embryos of various organisms to show a common ancestor because of similarities in development

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embryology