When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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Any variation that can help a species survive in a given environment is called...

• an adapatation
• a characteristic
• a homologous structure
• a vestigial structure

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Evolution as a slow change of one species to another

• natural selection

• camouflage

• radiometric dating

• embryology

• gradualism

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A (n) _________ is a group of organisms that look alike and can reproduce among themselves.

• species

• genus

• family

• order

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Which of the following is NOT one of the 5 principles of natural selection?

• organisms produce more offspring than can survive

• characteristics developed during a lifetime can be passed to offspring

• variations occur among individuals of a species

• variations are passed to offspring

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The Theory that organisms with traits best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• gradualism

• "on the origin of species"

• acquired characteristics

• natural selection

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A German Shepard would probably not survive in the wild because...

• the dog is mixed

• the dog is a product of artificial selection and not adapted for the wild.

• the dog is a product of natural selection and is not well fit for the environment

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Which evidence of common ancestry is being studied in this visual?

• biogeography
• fossil record
• anatomical homology
• molecular homology

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Scientists compare the limbs of organisms to look for evidence of common ancestry. These limbs provide evidence of common ancestry because they -

• perform the same function
• are the same size
• have the same basic structure
• are parts of the same animal

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