Evolution and Natural Selection

When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
• To protect itself against predators.
• To protect itself against prey.

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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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What shows that species have changed over time

• core samples from the earth

• recorded data in history books

• fossil record

• rock record

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A trait that allows an organism to survive its particular environment and reproduce

• factor

• adaptation

• selection

• variation

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True or False: Diversity of a species occurs through gradual processes over many generations.

• true

• false

If a new predator is introduced to an environment....

• the prey with unfavorable characteristics will move to a better environment

• the prey with favorable characteristics will survive and pass trait to future generations

• the prey with unfavorable characteristics will adapt and get the favorable characteristic

• the prey with unfavorable characteristics will survive for many generations and continue to reproduce

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