Natural Selection Quiz

What is the observable fact that when parents have children, those children often look and behave slightly different than their parents?

• Selective Breeding

• Common Descent

• Descent with Modification

• Genetic Mutations

Which concept of evolution is the idea that all life on Earth is related and descended from a common ancestor?

• Selective Breeding

• Common Descent

• Descent with Modification

• Natural Selection

What did Charles Darwin notice about the species of plants and animals on islands compared to those on nearby continents?

• They were smaller in size

• They were specially adapted for island life

• They were randomly different

• They were identical

What process did Darwin draw upon to explain the sculpting of island creatures for survival within their unique environments?

• Common Descent

• Selective Breeding

• Genetic Mutations

• Random Variation

What is the process by which random evolutionary changes are selected for by nature in a consistent, orderly, non-random way?

• Genetic Mutations

• Common Descent

• Selective Breeding

• Natural Selection

What is the main reason why the idea of Common Descent was rejected by many philosophers and scientists in the past?

• Lack of evidence

• Complexity of life

• Random chaos

• Intelligent design

What is the idea that all life on Earth is related and descended from a common ancestor?

• Natural Selection

• Descent with Modification

• Common Descent

• Selective Breeding

What is the process by which nature decides which of the new traits produced through descent with modification to keep?

• Selective Breeding

• Random Variation

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Mutations