Natural Selection

A slight difference in an inherited trait between individual members of the same species.

• variations
• adapatations
• homologous structures
• analogous structures

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An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing.

• variation
• adaptation
• vestigial structure
• mutation

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Body parts of organisms that are the same in structure and position but different in function.

• embryos
• homologous structures
• analogous structures
• vestigial structures

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Body parts that have lost their original function.

• embryos
• homologous structures
• analogous structures
• vestigial structures

When an organism has a trait that allows it to blend in with its environment, we call that ____.

• mimicry
• camouflage
• lucky
• sonic hedgehog gene

The English naturalist that developed the theory of how evolution works.

• Charles Darwin
• Charles M. Schulz
• Charles Dickens
• Charles Norris

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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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Genetic diversity in a species makes long term survival of some members

• impossible

• improvable

• more likely

• less likely

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A physical trait favored by an environmental change can be called an

• adaptation

• extinction

• possibility

• mutation

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Natural Selection is driven by a change in the environment and survival of the

• Earth

• Fastest

• Fittest

• Biggest

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