Biodiversity Quiz

A trait that helps an individual to survive and reproduce in a certain environment is called a(n):

• Evolutionary Trait

• Adaptation

• Conservation 

• Reproductive Trait

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Change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms that occurs over many generations

• Fitness

• Evolution

• Survival of the Fittest

• Natural Selection

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A segment of DNA that determines or helps to determine a trait

• Gene

• Mutation

• Trait

• DNA

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Differences among individuals in the composition of their genes or DNA segments

• Homologous Structure

• Interdependence

• Genetic Variation

• Population

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Process by which individual that are better suited to the environment survive & reproduce

• Natural Selection

• Population

• Selective Breeding

• Artificial Selection

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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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Darwin theorized that organisms with traits that are best suited to their environment will ________________

• increase in number

• become extinct

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Darwin theorized that organisms with traits that are best suited to their environment will ________________

• be more likely to survive and reproduce.

• be more likely to become extinct

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Predict which moth would be expected to increase in population

• light

• dark

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An inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.

• Fossil

• Adaptation

• Ancestor

• Natural selection

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