Evolution Quiz

To change over time is _____________.

• Evolution

• spontaneous generation

• aerobic

• anaerobic

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Who is known as "The Father of Evolution" and believed in the process of natural selection?

• James Mendel

• Aristotle

• Louis Pasteur

• Charles Darwin

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The human practice of breeding animals or plants that have certain desired traits  

• natural selection
• genetic drift
• artificial selection
• adaption

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The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less well adapted individuals do 

• artificial selection
• natural selection
• genetic drift
• speciation

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A trait that improves an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce; the process of becoming adapted 

• selection
• drift
• speciation
• adaption

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The trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock

• fossil
• drift
• homologous
• speciation

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Natural Selection

• Mutations cause new traits.

• The environment causes new traits.

• Allows only those with the best traits to survive.

• Mutations produce new traits and selection allows the best of those to survive.

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According to evolutionary theory, all living things have a common

• Purpose

• Function

• Ancestor

• Phone Number

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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.

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Natural selection is when ____________ decides who survives and who doesn't

• nature
• humans
• animals
• years

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