Evolution and Natural Selection

Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce:

• Fewer mutations

• Stronger genes

• More offspring

• Better traits

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You look at two species and see very similar DNA. What does this likely tell you?

• These are the same animal.
• These animals have a common ancestor.
• These animals are not likely related.
• These animals are likely becoming one species.

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Horse breeding for specific desired traits is an example of which type of evolutionary evidence?

• Artificial selection
• Embryology
• Fossils
• Biochemical molecules

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An inherited characteristic that increases an organisms ability to survive and reproduce in its specific environment is called a(n)

• vestigial structure
• speciation
• analogous structure
• adaptation

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According to the theory of natural selection, some individuals more likely than others to survive and reproduce because they:

• pass on to their offspring their newly acquired traits.
• are better adapted to their environment than others and will pass on those adaptations to future offspring.
• do not pass on newly acquired traits.
• produce fewer offspring than others in the same environment.

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When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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What was the name of the ship Darwin traveled the world on?

• HMS Beagle
• SS Beagle
• HMS Bugle
• SS Bugle

Which of the following is a term for a group of similar organisms that can reproduce fertile offspring?

• individual
• population
• species
• fossil

Natural selection

• process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest
• Humans select which animals live and die
• both 
• IDK

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speciation

• Formation of new species
• idk
• Formation of old species
• none of the above

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