Natural Selection Quiz

What is Descent with Modification?

• The process of selectively breeding plants and animals

• The observable fact that offspring look and behave slightly different than their parents

• The idea that all life on Earth is related

• The process by which random evolutionary changes are selected for by nature

What is Common Descent?

• The observable fact that offspring look and behave slightly different than their parents

• The process of selectively breeding plants and animals

• The idea that all life on Earth is related

• The process by which random evolutionary changes are selected for by nature

Who discovered Natural Selection?

• Ancient philosophers

• Charles Darwin

• Jon Perry

• A group of scientists

How did farmers create new domestic forms of plants and animals?

• By randomly modifying the traits of wild forms

• By selectively breeding plants and animals with desirable traits

• By creating new traits through genetic engineering

• By allowing random variations to reproduce

What is the process of Natural Selection?

• The process of creating new traits through genetic mutations

• The process of randomly modifying traits through descent with modification

• The process of selectively breeding plants and animals

• The process of nature selecting which variations get to live and reproduce

What does Natural Selection produce?

• Complex and orderly creations in living things

• Selective breeding in living things

• Random variations in living things

• Random and chaotic changes in living things