Evolution and Genetics

Which statement supports the theory of natural selection

• All organisms produce more offspring than can survive.
• Organisms live in harmony with one another despite limited resources.
• Organisms with favorable traits are more likely to die.
• Over time advantageous traits will be found in more of the population.

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The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

• species

• Darwin

• evolution

• taxonomy

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The branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms

• taxonomy

• law of conservation of mass

• evolution

• genetics

Structures derived from a common ancestor or same evolutionary or developmental origin

• homologous structures
• homosapien
• analogous structures
• atoms

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beneficial trait that allows an organism to be better suited for survival and reproduction

• adaptation
• genetics
• genes
• law of genetic balance

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Deoxyribonucleic acid; contains hereditary information for a living organism

• DNA
• cells
• atoms
• molecules

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Most adaptations that help an organism survive are passed on from parent to child as ___traits?

• adaptable
• physical
• more
• inherited

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Change in a gene or chromosome

• evolution
• variation
• mutation
• adaptation

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A phenotype is the...

• letter combination
• dominant gene
• recessive gene
• physical appearance

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What adaptation helped the peppered moths survive?

• Camouflage

• Hibernation

• Speed

• Stealth

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