Natural Selection & Adaptations

An inherited trait that helps those organisms that have it to survive

• niche
• structure
• characteristic
• adaptation

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A group of organisms of the same species

• ecosystem
• community
• population
• group

Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

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What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

• genes.
• variations.
• traits.
• theories.

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A change in DNA.

• Competition
• Mutation
• Species
• Fitness

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Organisms with the most beneficial traits will survive.  This is commonly known as ___.

• theory of evolution
• variations
  
• survival of the fittest
• ecosystems
  

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Occurs when a population of organisms cannot adapt quickly enough to environmental changes.

• Evolution
• Adaptation
• Selective Pressure
• Extinction  

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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In selective breeding humans select the most desirable traits

• True

• False

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