Natural Selection

Which is not an example of an adaptation?

• A bird's beak allows it to crack open hard nuts.
• A zebra's stripes allow it to confuse its predators.
• A frog's large hind legs allow it to jump from danger.
• A cat sleeps on the sofa to avoid the vacuum cleaner.

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What was the name of the scientist who had the theory of evolution?

• Lamarck
• Einstein
• Washington
• Darwin

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Changes in a body to fit a location.

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Behavior
• Environment

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

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Which of the following is a term for a group of similar organisms that can reproduce fertile offspring?

• individual
• population
• species
• fossil

Evolution means...

• Change over time in a population.
• That everything is the same.
• That organisms never change.
• Negative traits are acquired in populations.

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Survival of the Fittest and the theory of evolution are attributed what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Jean Baptiste de Lamark
• Isaac Newton

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What is it called when better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to their offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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Any variation that can help a species survive in a given environment is called...

• an adapatation
• a characteristic
• a homologous structure
• a vestigial structure

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The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce is known as...

• Adaptation
• Trait
• Fitness
• Variation

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