Bio Lesson 7: Evolution & Natural Selection

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed on to the offspring?

• Because parents with those traits can teach their offspring
• Because parents with those traits can surive and reproduce better
• Because parents with those traits care more about their offspring

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Do organisms "decide" to adapt?

• Yes, if they don't adapt they will die
• No, they can't adapt.  They either have adaptations or they don't
• No, they adapt by random mutations during their lifetime
• Yes, they can force mutations in one lifetime

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An adaptation is

• how animals change over time.
• a characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce
• a theory of how organisms change.
• the genes in an organism that determine how an organism is going to look.

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Which two organisms would be inferred to be the most closely related according to this part of their DNA sequence?

Critter A--> ATG CTT AAC CCG TTA

Critter B--> ATC CTT TTC CCG TAA

Critter C--> ATG CTA TAG GCG TAA

• Critter A and B

• Critter A and C

• Critter B and C

• They are all equally related

Which of the following means "genetic change in a population over time"

• natural selection
• speciation
• evolution
• fitness

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The differences within a population and/or species are referred to as

• diversity of species

• variation

• vestigial structures

• DNA studies

Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 
• dark

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Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce more, therefore passing down their genes to their offspring?

• Evolution

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

The diagram shows fossils in different rock layers. Using relative dating methods, which of these statements about the age of these fossils is most likely correct?

• Fossil A and C are the same age

• Fossil B is older than fossil C

• Fossils A is older than fossil B

• Fossil D is older than fossil C

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, thus light mice have more offspring.

• The hawks eat more light mice than dark mice because they can see the light mice more easily, thus dark mice will have more offspring.

• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because they can see the dark mice more easily, thus the light mice have more offspring.