Module 1: Natural & Artificial Selection Review

The process that explains how organisms with traits best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Adaptations

• Principle of variation

• Competition

• Natural selection

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The process by which new individual organisms (offspring) are produced from their parents.

• Selection

• Variation

• Competion

• Reproduction

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The differences in inherited traits among individual members of a species.

• Reproduction

• Variation

• Competition

• Selection

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A relationship between organisms who are striving for the same resource in the same place.

• Reproduction

• Variation

• Selection

• Competition

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The process that explains how organisms with traits best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Selection

• Competition

• Variation

• Reproduction

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The process by which populations of organisms with variations that help them survive in their environments live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than those without the variations.

• Principle of uniformitarianism

• Traits

• Theory of evolution

• Genetics

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Which best describes the role of mutations in natural selection?

• Mutations help an organism to better survive in their environment

• An organism may acquire a helpful mutation by interacting with the environment

• A mutation may result in a beneficial trait that makes an organism more likely to survive and reproduce

• Organisms with certain traits are more likely to win competitions for mutations

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All rabbits of the same species living in a particular area would be an example of a(n)

• population

• species

• community

• ecosystem

The more genetic variation a population has, the more likely it is for some individuals to ______________.

• evolve

• migrate

• survive

• mutate

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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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