Natural Selection/Selective Breeding

What is natural selection?

• a living individual that can carry out life processes

• Process by which an organism that better adapts to their environment survive and reproduce

• Process by which a community better adapts to their environment to give traits to one another within their generation.

• the time between when an organism is born and when they reproduce

What is Heredity?

• the passing of traits from one generation to the another from parent to offspring.

• the passing of traits from one generation to the parent and the common ancestor.

• the passing of characteristics from one generation to another from offspring to the parent.

• the passing of traits from one generation to another from descendents to the ancestors.

Selective Breeding is

• making organisms reproduce during times of stress

• a process to create an organism with desired traits from parents with those desired traits

• natural method of producing offspring with desired traits

• creating a new species

Evidence shows that the wolf is the ancestor to all of the breeds of dogs shown below. How did this variation arise in a relatively short period of time?

• Genetic manipulation

• Natural Selection

• Random Chance

• Selective Breeding

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

• variation
• adaptation
• vestigial structure
• mutation

Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

Behavioral changes of individuals of a species that allow for better survival. (Acquired traits)

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Behavior
• Environment

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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.

The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution
• Nucleotide 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection