Natural Selection

If an organism can't adapt fast enough, this might happen.

• hibernate
• stay the same
• live longer
• become extinct

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Darwin said that within a species there will be _________________________

• nothing different
• variation/differences

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Organisms with differences/variations that are helpful will ______________________

• live longer
• become extinct
• show no change

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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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These cause variations.

• mutations
• adaptations
• a desire to change
• injuries

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The change over time in populations of related species.

• biological evolution
• transition
• variation
• adaptation

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A slight difference in an inherited trait between individual members of the same species.

• variations
• adapatations
• homologous structures
• analogous structures

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An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing.

• variation
• adaptation
• vestigial structure
• mutation

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Body parts that have lost their original function.

• embryos
• homologous structures
• analogous structures
• vestigial structures

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What is it called when humans decide which traits of an organism are the most desirable and only allow those organisms with the specific, desired traits to breed.

• biological evolution
• evolution by natural selection
• artificial selection
• inbreeding

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