Historical Perspectives on Natural Selection

What was the name of the ship Charles Darwin sailed on?

• Boaty McBoaty Face
• HMS Beagle
• HMS Britannia
• HMS Bulldog

What does evolution mean?

• To change something
• To change and adapt over time
• To lose some original features
• To improve ssomething over time

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For Darwin, how have animals and plants survived?

• Through luck
• Through natural selection
• Through careful management
• Through choice

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What is survival of the fittest?

• It is where the fittest die out and therefore reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest die out and therefore can't reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest don't die out and therefore can't reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest don't die out and therefore reproduce and pass on their genes

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What is natural selection?

• Your natural fate is decided from birth
• Nature actively chooses who surivives
• Those best suited to demands of environment surivie
• The weakest of a species surivie

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Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement: 
survival of the fittest

• Darwin 
• Lamarck

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Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement:

use body part or lose it

• Darwin

• Lamarck

What do we call differences among heritable traits?

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Evolution
• Speciation

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Who stated that animals "acquired traits"; for example, a giraffe needed a long neck so they stretched it over time

• Darwin

• Lamarck

This salamander did not use its eyes so it lost its vision. Who said if you don't use it you lose it?

• Darwin

• Lamarck