Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection

1. Which is NOT a principle of natural selection?

• • Variation

• • Heritability

• • Lack production

• • Overproduction

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2. Who had a theory that is similar to darwins?

• • Alfred Russel Wallace

• • Thomas Malthis

• • Charles Lyell

• • John Gould

3. What is natural selection?

• • Selective breeding.

• • Organisms with suited traits to their environment survive and produce more offspring.

• • The process by wich humans breed plants or animals to get a new breed with a specific trait.

• • Two closely relative organisms are bred to have the desired traits and to eliminate the undesired ones in the offspring.

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4. How many years does the HMS beagle trip was?

• • 5 years

• • 6 years

• • 7 years

• • 4 years

5. What is the name of Darwin's book?

• • The origin of organisms

• • Princeples of Geology

• • *The origin of species -by the mean of natural selection- *

• • Princeples of natural selection

6. From where did the HMS beagle voyage started

• • Italy

• • France

• • United Kingdom

• • South America

7. What did darwin realised in the four Galapagos islands he visited?

• • That the organisms are similar but there is a variation, they're not identical.

• • That the organisms are identical.

• • Nothing

• • That there were so many organisms in the island

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8. Artificial selection and selective breeding are the same

• • False

• • True

9. What was darwin's role in the HMS beagle trip?

• • Geologist

• • Naturalist and companion the captain.

• • Ornithologist and companion the captain

• • Economist

10. Charles darwin was studying natural selection even before the HMS beagle begin

• • True

• • False