Natural Selection

According to natural selection, light colored tree trunks would favor

• light colored moths

• dark colored moths

• red colored moths

• red and light colored moths

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Genetic diversity in a species makes long term survival of some members

• impossible

• improvable

• more likely

• less likely

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Over the years, white mice became extinct and darker mice survived. This is

• stabilizing selection

• directional selection

• disruptive selection

• due to exercise

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A physical trait favored by an environmental change can be called an

• adaptation

• extinction

• possibility

• mutation

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Natural Selection is driven by a change in the environment and survival of the

• Earth

• Fastest

• Fittest

• Biggest

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Average phenotypes are favored in the environment, while extremes have lower survival rates.

• seasonal selection

• distruptive selection

• directional selection

• stabilizing selection

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Behavioral changes of individuals of a species that allow for better survival. (Acquired traits)

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Behavior
• Environment

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
• To protect itself against predators.
• To protect itself against prey.

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The theory of evolution by natural selection means that what is changing over time?

• The inherited traits of a population.
• The acquired traits of a population.
• Hair color and eye color
• Attractive features.

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