Mechanisms of Evolution and Natural Selection

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9th Grade
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Rachel Combs
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Adaptations can be:
camouflage
ability to survive cold weather
hunting skills
all of the above
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2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A yellow morph and green morph of an insect lives in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:
the green population to increase and the yellow to decrease
both populations should stay the same
both populations will increase
the green population to decrease and the yellow to increaseThis is a wrong answer
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3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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 organism knew it needed that trait, survives, and passes it on.
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4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Mutations are a change in what?
DNA
tRNA
protein
rRNA
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5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Over the years, white mice became extinct and darker mice survived. This is
stabilizing selection
directional selection
disruptive selection
due to exercise
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7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Average phenotypes are favored in the environment, while extremes have lower survival rates.
seasonal selection
distruptive selection
directional selection
stabilizing selection
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