Evolution Vocabulary

What is an inherited characteristic that helps organisms survive?

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

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Natural selection is the process that passes down ____________________ traits.

• Same

• Old

• Useless

• Favorable

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A mistake or change that occurs in the DNA sequence is called a ______________________.

• Extinction

• Speciation

• Mutation

• Genetic Variation

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When there is a difference in population based on genes, it is said to be a _______________.

• Mutation

• Speciation

• Extinction

• Genetic Variation

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Group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.

• species
• gene pool
• population
• homologous structure

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Group of organisms all of the same species, living in the same place at the same time.

• gene pool
• population
• species
• evolution

A change in the genetic information (DNA).

• Mutation
• Speciation
• Migration
• Evolution

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mechanism by which individuals that have inherited beneficial adaptions produce more offspring on average than do other individuals 

• Fitness
• Natural Selection
• Evolution
• Artificial Selection

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differences in physical traits of an individual from the group to which it belongs

• Adaptation
• Variation
• Fittness
• Natural Selection

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measure of an organisms's ability to survive and produce offspring relative to other members of a population 

• Natural Selection
• Adaptation
• Fitness
• Variation

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