8th Grade: Chapter 7 Section 2 Quiz

characteristic that can be passed from parent to offspring through genes.

• selective breeding

• struggle to survive

• trait

• inherited variation

• natural selection

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process in which humans select which plants or animals to reproduce based on certain desired traits

• selective breeding

• struggle to survive

• trait

• inherited variation

• natural selection

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process by which organisms that are better adapted survive and reproduce more successfully than organisms that are less well adapted

• selective breeding

• struggle to survive

• trait

• inherited variation

• natural selection

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part of natural selection in which individuals have different traits

• selective breeding

• struggle to survive

• trait

• inherited variation

• natural selection

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part of natural selection in which some individuals die from starvation, competition, disease, or predation

• selective breeding

• struggle to survive

• trait

• inherited variation

• natural selection

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Which of the following was NOT a source for Darwin’s ideas about evolution?

• characteristics of Galápagos animals

• selective breeding by farmers and animal breeders

• the ideas and observations of Thomas Malthus and Charles Lyell

• scientists’ knowledge of genetic changes