Natural Selection Vocabulary

What do you call a related organism from a previous generation?

• ancestor

• adaptive trait

• distribution

• environment

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What is a way of hiding by looking the same as the background?

• feature

• distribution

• chromosome

• camouflage

What is an event that results in an outcome or a change?

• effect

• cause

• feature

• distribution

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The presence of snakes creating an environment where high poison levels in newts becomes the adaptive trait is an example of a

• prediction

• effect

• cause

• distribution

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An adaptive trait depends on the (fill in the blank)

• environment

• species

• natural selection

• predation

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Is being yellow always an adaptive trait in ostrilopes in a yellow environment?

• Yes, it always is an adaptive trait because of camouflage

• No, it never is because ostrilopes don't have adaptive traits

• No, it only is when the ostrilopes have predators

• Yes, it always is because carnithons can't see them

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What is a feature?

• everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

• an instruction for making a protein molecule

• a change that happens because of an event

• a characteristic that all members of a species have

What does a histogram show?

• Adaptive and non-adaptive traits

• The distribution of traits within a population

• The variation of features for a species

• The variation of adaptive traits within a population

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What is an instruction for making a protein molecule?

• a mutation

• a chromosome

• a feature

• a gene

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What is a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

• A non-adaptive trait

• A feature

• A trait

• An adaptive trait

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