Evolution Quizizz

The process of organisms with the best adaptations surviving and reproducing is called---

• Survival of the fittest

• Natural selection

• Adaptive behaviors

• Being smart

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Why does natural selection happen?

• Organisms have to fight to survive.

• Predators have to eat.

• Resources are limited.

• Everything has a common ancestor.

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The struggle between organisms for food, space, water and mates

• competition

• adaptation

• natural selection

• gene flow

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The movement of genetic information from one population to another

• genetic drift

• adaptation

• homology

• gene flow

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change in frequency (percent) of genetic information in a population.

• genetic drift

• homology

• natural selection

• gene flow

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Similar structures in different organisms which may or may not have a similar function.

• adaptation

• natural selection

• homology (homologous structures)

• competition

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A structure in a species which used to function but does not function anymore

• homology (homologous structures)

• vestigial structures

• competition

• adaptation

What is the basic idea of evolution?

• Organisms struggle to survive.

• Those organisms that don't adapt, go extinct.

• Everything on earth is related through common ancestors.

• Resources are limited.

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Who was the naturalist that traveled the world to study plants and animals?

• Albert Einstein
• Charles Darwin
• Charles Barkley
• Isaac Newton

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The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution
• Nucleotide 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection

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