Evolution

A trait or change in lifestyle that helps a plant or animal survive in its environment

• adaptation

• evolution

• homologous

• vestigial

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Organisms with the best suited adaptations for their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than organisms that are not very well adapted

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• creationism

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a trait that gives an organism an advantage in their particular environment

• overproduction

• adaptation

• selection

• variation

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A sudden change in the genes of an organism. It can cause abnormal physical traits.

• fossil

• extinction

• mutation

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Select the right word for this definition:

"in biology, changes that happen over time in the gene pool of a population."

• evolution

• extinction

• mutation

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One example of ___ is how moths that couldn't blend in with their environments as well as others died out over time.

• mutation

• natural selection

• extinction

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All of the genetic information found in a population

• population

• genetic drift

• evolution

• gene pool

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Genetic Diversity is increased through this process.

• Gene Flow

• Genetic Drift

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If a new trait DOES help an organism survive, what may happen to it?

• It dies and its DNA is not passed on

• It survives and its DNA is passed on

• It changes its traits to adapt and survive

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Evolution is

• the change in the genetic makeup of a population over successive generations

• the variation in genetic makeup or alleles within a population

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