Natural Selection Vocabulary

What idea made Charles Darwin famous ?

• Evolution
• Animals
• Natural Selection
• Medicine

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The name for the idea that organisms that are more fit for their environment create more offspring. AKA Survival of the fittest

• Artificial Selection

• Creationism

• Natural Selection

• Dependent Selection

Where was Charles Darwin when he noticed the differences between different species of finches and turtles?

• The Galapagos Islands

• The Philippines

• The Azores

• The Bahamas

When Mendel was breeding his pea plants to create plants with certain color flowers, he was using what process?

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Creationism

• Dependent Selection

______________ is a change in species in a smaller area, whereas ________________ is a change across the entire species.

• differentiation/ speciation

• speciation/ differentiation

• macroevolution/ microevolution

• microevolution/ macroevolution

the process by which an organism becomes better suited to its environment, or the features of an organism that make it well suited for its environment

• natural selection/ natural selections

• evolution/ evolutions

• adaptation/ adaptations

• differentiation/ differences

The idea that life can emerge from non-life

• Creationism

• Spontaneous Generation

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

These changes in DNA create variation in phenotypes that may allow an organism to be more or less fit for its environment.

• mutations

• RNA

• transcriptions

• carcinogen