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 word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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All mutations and adaptations usually lead to what process?

• selective breeding
• behavioral
• natural selection
• genetic engineering

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Which organisms are most likely to survive?

• the best adapted
• the fastest
• the strongest
• the most domesticated (tamed)

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Almost all adaptations started off as?

• selective breeding
• physiological
• structural
• mutation

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Which of the following means "genetic change over time"

• natural selection
• speciation
• evolution
• fitness

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Do organisms "decide" to evolve and change?

• Yes, they know they need to change to survive 
• No, they change because of natural selection

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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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Since the 1800s humans have stopped burning coal, and the trees have returned to their original color. Which moth will be more successful in this environment?

• Dark moth
• Light moth
• Both will be equally successful
• Neither will be successful

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