AccBio Evolution Target 7-8 - Nat Sel. and Types of Selection

What type of selection is depicted in the picture?

• stabilizing

• directional

• disruptive

_{What type of selection?}

• Directional 
• Stabilizing
• Disruptive

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Which of the three graphs shows stabilizing selection?

• 1

• 2

• 3

Which of the three graphs shows disruptive selection?

• 1

• 2

• 3

If finches with large beaks and finches with small beaks increase in a population while finches with average sized beaks decreases, which pattern of natural selection has occurred?

• Directional selection
• Disruptive selection 
• Stabilizing selection

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Human babies don't do well if they are born too small. If they are too big complications can occur during birth. Baby size should then be selected for by which method?

• stabilizing

• directional

• disruptive

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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"Survival of the Fittest" describes which theory

• a) natural selection
• b) gravity
• c) heredity
• d) string theory

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Modern whales developed their traits through natural selection.  What occurs during the process of natural selection?

• Organisms choose mates from other species to create new species
• Breeders selectively cross organisms with desired traits
• Only the fittest organisms can survive and reproduce
• Organisms remain exactly the same over time.

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The difference in the physical traits of an individual from those of other individuals in a group is called a(n)

• change
• adaption
• species
• variation

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