Evolutionary Relationships and Natural Selection

What was one of Charles Darwin's thoughts on evolution?

• Individual animals can go through evolution

• Animals that have good traits die

• "survival of the fittest"

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What's coevolution?

• One species changing in response to another species

• Two or more species relying on each other to live

• Two or more species living in the same space

• Geological changes that can affect how species change over time

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The Monarch and Viceroy butterflies are an example of what?

• Camouflage

• Mimicry

• Protective Coloration

• Protective Resemblance

Descent with modification is...

• The difference in DNA among individuals

• Each generation has more offspring than the environment can support

• Passing traits from the parent to the offspring

• When a DNA gene is damaged

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What is carrying capacity

• The most population that an environment can sustain

• An interaction between organisms in the same habitat using the same resources

• How many offspring a species can give

• How many species can fit in an area

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Your ears being able to wiggle is,

• An analogous structure

• A homologous structure

• A vestigial structure

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Having a similar coloring as another species is

• Counter Shading

• Mimicry

• Protective Resemblance

• Protective Coloration

Birds, bats, butterflies and flies all have wings, this is an example of

• Divergent Evolution

• Convergent Evolution

• Coevolution

• Genetics

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What animals have protective coloration?

• Frog

• Rabbit

• Ptarmigan

• Bear

The top side of the animal has a different color from the bottom side

• Counter Shading

• Protective Coloration

• Protective Resemblance

• Camouflage