NOVA EVOLUTION LAB

What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an animal survive.

• The food that an animal eats.

• How energy moves in a food web.

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What are the 2 ingredients to natural selection?

• predation and the environment

• reproduction and predation

• reproduction and variation

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Evolution is completely random.

• true

• false

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A giraffe's long neck - used to reach leaves high in trees - is an example of a

• behavioral adaptation

• structural adaptation

If an organism is the "fittest" that means it is.... (HINT: in evolution)

• the most successful at reproducing

• the longest lived

• the strongest

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The ears of this fox are an example of a...

• Behavioral adaptation

• Structural adaptation

What is the goal of the tree of life:

• to explain how all species are related to each other

• to describe how natural selection works

• to summarize the fossil record

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Which way does time run on a phylogenetic tree?

(In other words, which way do you read a phylogenetic tree from oldest to youngest?)

• From root to branch tip (bottom to top)

• Across branch tips (left to right)

A mushroom is more like

• A palm tree because they are heterotrophs.

• A palm tree because they are both photosynthetic autotrophs.

• A gecko because they are both heterotrophs.

• A gecko because they are both photosynthetic autotrophs.

What word BEST describes something animals DO to live? (HINT: hibernation, migration etc.)

• warning coloration

• mimicry

• behavioral adaptation