natural/artificial selection

what is natural selection?

• the surrounding conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives

• an individual individual animal, plant or single-celled life form

• the process whereby organisms better adapt to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

• the process by which humans can choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits

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what is artificial selection (also called selective breeding) ?

• the process by which humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits

• the process whereby organisms better adapt to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

• characteristics that are passed to you from your parents

• a body part or feature or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its environment

what's an environment?

• characteristics that are passed to you from your parents

• a body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its environment

• an individual animal, plant or single celled life form

• the surrounding or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives

what's an organism?

• a body part or feature or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its environment

• an individual animal, or single celled life form

• the process by which humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits

• the surrounding or conditions in which a person, plant, or animal lives

what's an adaptation? (there are two answers)

• a body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its environments

• the surrounding or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives

• happens through natural selection

• happens through selective breeding

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who is Charles Darwin? (there's more than one answer)

• he studied finches

• he fought in the new england war

• he discovered natural selection

• he wrote the finch book

what are genetic traits?

• the process by which humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits

• characteristics that are passed on to you (inherited) from your parents

• a body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its environment

• the process whereby organisms better adapt to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

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what have we artificially selected

• dogs

• cats

• food

• plants

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a big white polar bear lives in the freezing cold arctic, what is an adaptation it has?

• big claws

• very thick skin

• camouflage

• small ears

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Darwin began to formulate his concept of evolution by natural selection after what

• experimentation with animals

• observations of many species of plants and animals while aboard the H.M.S Beagle

• reading many books about finches

• watching a finches every move every second of the day