Darwin/Natural Selection Retake

The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

• Commensalism

• Genetic superiority

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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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Peppered moths often hide on white-colored birch trees because they are similarly colored. Which of the following environmental changes would lead to the survival of darker moths?

• Warm weather causes the birch trees to grow their leaves back early.

• Birch trees become covered in black ash from nearby factories.

• Heavy rainfall causes birch trees to grow taller than normal.

• Disease kills off more than half of the birch tree population.

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

• Charles Darwin

• Albert Einstein

• Steven Hawking

• Isaac Newton

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.

In recent years "SuperBugs" (bacteria that aren't effected by antibiotics) are becoming more and more common. How could natural selection explain this?

• Superbugs survive antibiotics and reproduce

• Antibiotics cause bacteria to become superbugs

• We have always had the same amount of superbugs; modern media just discusses them more.

• There is no reliable data on the origin of super bugs.

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Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement: 
acquired characteristics are inherited

• Darwin 

• Lamarck

Natural selection is when ____________ decides who survives and who doesn't

• nature

• humans

• animals

• years

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Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA

• tRNA

• genotype

• phenotype

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Why is the mouse population changing over time?

• The light mice can reproduce more successfully than the dark mice

• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because the dark mice taste better

• The hawks eat more light mice than dark mice because they can see the light mice more easily

• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because they can see the dark mice more easily

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