Natural Selection, Adaptation and Evolution Quiz

An inherited trait that helps those organisms that have it to survive

• niche
• structure
• characteristic
• adaptation

Coloring or another physical characteristic that help an organism blend in with its environment

• mimicry
• camouflage
• hibernation
• migration

Occurs when a population of organisms cannot adapt quickly enough to environmental changes.

• Evolution
• Adaptation
• Selective Pressure
• Extinction  

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 trait is an acquired phenotype.

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

• variations
• adapatations
• homologous structures
• analogous structures

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

• variation
• adaptation
• vestigial structure
• mutation

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

• embryos
• homologous structures
• analogous structures
• vestigial structures

Studying the development of ____ can provide scientists with evidence that certain species are related.

• fish
• embryos
• Tiktaalik
• vestigial structures

When an organism of a species is born with a variation in a trait that gives it an advantage in its environment, we call that trait an adaptation.

• true
• false

When an organism of a species has an adaptation, it will compete for resources better, survive longer and pass that adaptation on to it's offspring. This process is called

• evolution by natural selection
• artificial selection
• inbreeding
• outbreeding