SC.912.L.15.13 - Natural Selection

When the members of two populations cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring.

• Reproductive Isolation
• Disruptive Isolation
• Directional Isolation
• Stabilizing Isolation

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Two populations are separated by geographical barriers such as rivers or mountains

• Reproductive Isolation
• Geographic Isolation
• Behavioral Isolation
• Temporal Isolation

When populations are capable of breeding but have differences in reproductive behaviors

• Reproductive Isolation
• Behavioral Isolation
• Temporal Isolation
• Geographic Isolation

An organism's appearance or other observable characteristics:

• phenotype
• recessive
• genotype
• dominant

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An organism's genetic make-up:

• phenotype
• recessive
• genotype
• dominant

Natural selection can best be defined as the _____.

• survival of the biggest and strongest in a population
• survival and reproduction of those in the largest area
• elimination of the smallest organism by the biggest
• survival and reproduction of those that are best adapted

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Characteristics that allow a population to become better suited to its environment

• accommodation
• adaptation
• variation
• selection

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Darwin conducted much of his research on

• the Samoan Islands
• the Hawaiian Islands
• Catalina Island
• the Galapagos Islands

The process that produces a similar phenotypes among unrelated groups of organisms is

• adaptive radiation
• convergent evolution
• mass extinction
• coevolution

Individuals that survive long enough to reproduce have a high level of

• fitness
• adaptation
• hormones
• stamina

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