Natural selection

Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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Which organisms are most likely to survive?

• the best adapted
• the fastest
• the strongest
• the most domesticated (tamed)

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Change over time

• Natural Selection
• Selective Breeding
• Homeostasis
• Evolution

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These moths are all the same species. The differences between their wings is an example of ________________

• Natural Selection
• Variation
• Homeostasis
• Extinction

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The process in which organisms with traits well suited to an environment are more likely to survive and to produce offspring is

• Natural selection.

• Genetic principles.

• Origin of species.

• Trait mechanism.

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The squirrel in the picture is using an adaptation called

• camouflage

• hibernation

• migration

• retention

Any variation that can help a species survive in a given environment is called...

• an adapatation
• a characteristic
• a homologous structure
• a vestigial structure

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