Unit Evolution/Classification (9, 10, 11, 12)

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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The theory of evolution by natural selection means that what is changing over time?

• The inherited traits of a population.
• The acquired traits of a population.
• Hair color and eye color
• Attractive features.

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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 come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA
• tRNA
• genotype
• phenotype

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_______ selection is when humans decide who survives and who doesn't

• Natural

• Animal

• Artificial

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Rat snakes come in a variety of colors so that they can be camouflaged in the terrain in which they live. 

• Artificial Selection
• Natural Selection

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Farmers raise corn that has been made virus-resistant by adding a gene from the Teosinte weed. 

• Artificial Selection
• Natural Selection

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What type of selection is depicted in the picture? 

• stabilizing 
• directional 
• disruptive 
• the answer is not here

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Robins typically lay fours eggs. If more then four eggs are produced then the baby chicks are malnourished while smaller egg numbers result in no viable (able to live) baby chicks. This is an example of

• stabalizing
• disruptive
• direction
• none of the above

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_{What type of selection?}

• Directional 
• Stabilizing
• Disruptive

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