Evolution Quiz Review

"Survival of the Fittest" describes which theory

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

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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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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 is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
• To protect itself against predators.
• To protect itself against prey.

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The theory of evolution by natural selection means that what is changing over time?

• The inherited traits of a population.
• The acquired traits of a population.
• Hair color and eye color
• Attractive features.

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Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA
• tRNA
• genotype
• phenotype

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A relative who lived in the past.

• Charles Darwin
• Speciation
• Ancestor
• Descendant

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A characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.

• Ancestor
• Adaptation
• Descendant
• Fossil

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An original species from which all other species evolved.

• Fossil
• Natural Selection
• Descendant
• Common Ancestor

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