Evolution

What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive in its environment?

• adaptation
• variation
• homologous structure
• vestigial structure

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

• better traits
• stronger genes
• more offspring
• fewer mutations

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All the individuals of a species that live in a particular area are called a 

• group
• population
• variation
• fossil

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A biological ____________ is a group of interbreeding populations that is reproductively isolated from other groups.

• species
• family
• phylogeny
• hybrid

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______________ is the process by which populations change in response to their environment.

• natural selection
• adaptation
• reproductive isolation
• divergence

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what did Charles Darwin observe in finch populations of the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South America?

• different species on different islands
• all species on one of the islands
• identical species on all the islands
• the same species as North America

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Mutations are important because they bring about

• death of the organism in which they develop
• genetic variation needed for a population to evolve
• benefits for the individual, not for the population
• Hardey-Weinberg equilibrium within a population

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Charles Darwin came up with this theory 

• Natural Selection
• Mutation

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This mechanism of evolution occurs when populations migrate.

• Extinction
• Gene flow
• Genetic drift
• Natural Selection

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A flash flood carried a raft of Amazon ants away from their original population. There is enough distance between the two groups, that they will never meet in nature again. What type of reproductive barrier is this?

• behavioral isolation
• temporal isolation 
• gametic isolation
• geographic isolation 

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