Evolution 2022

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because organisms with them are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Because organisms with them have dominant alleles.

• Because organisms with them have recessive alleles.

• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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A population consisting of brown beetles and green beetles migrate into a grassy field and eat along the grass throughout the day. There are various birds living in the area that consume insects for survival. If you were to come back to this population after several generations, what would you expect to see due to natural selection?

• There would be a higher frequency of brown beetles in the population

• There would be a higher frequency of green beetles in the population

• There would be an equal amount of green and brown beetles in the population

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Why is the mouse population changing over time?

• The light fur mice can reproduce more successfully than the dark fur mice

• The hawks eat more dark fur mice than light mice because they hunt by smell

• The hawks eat more light fur mice than dark fur mice because they can see the light fur mice more easily

• The hawks eat more dark fur mice than light mice because they can see the dark fur mice more easily

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New variations of traits can appear within any population of living things (like you see in the butterfly patterns). Why do these new variations appear?

• Natural Selection

• Mutations

• Different behaviors

• Spontaneous generation

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Selective breeding/artificial selection is where ___________ decides which traits should be passed on

• Nature

• Humans

• Other predators

• The illuminati

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A population of mice range in color from light to dark. After a volcanic eruption, most of the land is covered in dark hardened lava. Over time, more and more of the surviving population is dark in color. This is an example of

• Stabilizing Selection

• Directional Selection

• Disruptive Selection

• Artificial Selection

Natural selection is where ___________ decides which traits should be passed on

• Nature

• A human

• Other predators

• The illuminati

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Which term describes a group of the same species that live in the same area?

• Population

• Species

• Biome

• Ecosystem

The long and sharp beak of a woodpecker is an example of:

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding/Artificial Selection

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The altering of corn by farmers to produce more kernels with much more sugar is an example of:

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding/Artificial Selection

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