Natural Selection

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

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

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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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Why do peppered moths tend to be the same color as the trees on which they live?

• The coloring goes along with tasting like the tree. 
• It keeps the moth the same temperature as the tree. 
• It makes the moths faster than the birds
• It makes the moths harder to see.

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Where are hereditary traits stored in all organisms?

• In the blood

• In the brain

• In the DNA

• In the heart

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One female salmon can lay hundreds of eggs. Why doesn't the salmon population increase dramatically?

• Salmon reproduce asexually

• Most offspring do not grow up to reproduce

• Salmon eggs don't hatch

• Salmon are extinct

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Another term for Natural Selection is:

• Breeding

• Commensulism

• Communism

• Survival of the fittest

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Evolution means...

• Change over time in a population.
• That everything is the same.
• That organisms never change.
• Negative traits are acquired in populations.

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The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce is known as...

• Adaptation
• Trait
• Fitness
• Variation

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Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA
• tRNA
• genotype
• phenotype

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Which of the following means "change over time"

• natural selection
• speciation
• evolution
• isolation

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