Evolution and Natural Selection

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

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Natural Selection

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Natural selection is when ____________ decides who survives and who doesn't

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nature

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The trees these moths used to live on were white, but have been covered in soot from coal factories. Which moth will be more successful in this environment? Options: Dark moth, Light moth, Both will be equally successful, Neither will be successful

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Dark moth

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Which best describes mutations?

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Can be helpful or harmful

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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

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What does Darwin's theory of evolution suggest?

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species change over time

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Whales are aquatic mammals that contain a pelvis (hip) bone. Even though it does not aid in its movement, the function must have been used by a common ancestor of the whale. Thus, the pelvis is referred to as a(n)

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vestigial structure

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A theory has significant evidence to support it. True or False

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True