Natural Selection and Evolution

According to Natural Selection, light colored tree trunks would favor

• Light colored moths

• Dark colored moths

• Red colored moths

• Red and light colored moths

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Natural selection and the theory of evolution is attributed to which scientist?

• Darwin

• Lamarck

• Einstein

• Newton

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Mutations are a change in what?

• Genotype

• Phenotype

• tRNA

• DNA

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Evolution typically happens.....

• in a few weeks

• never

• over millions of years

• in 100 years

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A human’s arms, a cat’s front leg, a dolphin’s front flipper, and a bat’s wing

• have bones that are alike

• used in the same way

• have nothing in common

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Changes in traits can cause a species to change into a new one. This change over time is called?

• Graduation

• Revolution

• Selective breeding

• Evolution

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The peppered moth’s color camouflaged it on the light colored tree bark. It’s color was an example of a(n)

• variation

• recessive trait

• dominant trait

• adaptation

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Why might it be helpful for a species to have a lot of genetic variations (differenes)?

• They can't be seen by predators

• If the environment changes, they might be better able to adapt

• They don't recognize each other

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Another term for Natural Selection is

• Breeding

• Communism

• Selective breeding

• Survival of the fittest

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A change in a gene at the DNA level is called a ______________.

• Mutation

• Trait

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