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The scientist who is famous for his work on Natural Selection.

• Gregory Mendel
• Charles Darwin
• Robert Hooke
• John Dougherty

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A body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its environment.

• Adaptation
• Multi-cellular organ
• Genes
• Selective Breeding

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The surrounding or conditions in which a person, animal or plant lives.

• Biosphere
• Natural condition
• Selective protection
• Environment

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The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

• Natural Selection
• Selective Breeding
• Commensalism
• Genetic superiority

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The process by which humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits.

• Adaptation
• Hybrid 
• Selective Breeding
• Artificial Fertilization

Organisms within a population have genetic differences in their traits called.

• Genotypes
• Variation
• Natural Selection
• Heterozygous

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

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they look cooler.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat different types of food.
• To fly faster.
• To confuse scientists. 

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Evolution means...

• Change over time in a population.
• That everything is the same.
• That organisms never change.
• Negative traits are acquired in populations.

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"Survival of the Fittest" describes which theory

• a) natural selection
• b) gravity
• c) heredity
• d) string theory

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