Evolution and Natural Selection Review

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Artificial Selection

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The selective breeding of organisms by humans for specific, desirable characteristics.

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Which answer choice provides an example of artificial selection?

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Each answer choice is an example of artificial selection.

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Adaptation

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A characteristic that allows a population to survive while another population does not survive.

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Which answer choice is an example of an adaptation? Options: A group of deer have thick fur that keeps them warm in the winter time. A bird has a beak that allows it to eat a specific type of insect. A group of peppered moths has a darker skin color that allows them to blend in with the dark smoke in the sky.

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Each answer choice is an example of adaptation.

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Natural selection

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The process where individuals or populations that have characteristics that make them better adapted to their environment survive.

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Evolution is a change in a population, not an individual.

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True

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Evolution of Resistance (a.k.a. Resistance) is when...

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A species develops the ability to tolerate a chemical or disease-causing agent

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Which answer choice is an example of resistance? Options:

Insects eating crops are not killed by insecticide

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Deer that live in a cold environment do not grow thicker fur

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A honey creeper population and wildflower population develop new physical characteristics in response to one another

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None of the answer choices listed

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Insects eating crops are not killed by insecticide

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In which situation can an organism not adapt?

• When it's physical surroundings change
• When selective breeding occurs
• When it is responding to another organism
• When it's natural resources change

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When selective breeding occurs

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Co-evolution

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The process of two species evolving in response to long term interactions with one another