Natural Selection Quiz

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

• Descent with Modification

• Selective Breeding

• Common Descent

• Genetic Mutation

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

• Natural Selection

• Descent with Modification

• Selective Breeding

• Common Descent

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

• Common Descent

• Genetic Mutation

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

Who proposed the idea of Natural Selection in the mid 1800s?

• Gregor Mendel

• Isaac Newton

• Charles Darwin

• Louis Pasteur

What did Charles Darwin study during his travels that led him to become interested in the idea of common descent?

• Island Species

• Fossils

• Genetics

• Mathematics

What is the idea that nature itself is also capable of selection, deciding which of the variations get to live and reproduce?

• Common Descent

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Mutation

• Selective Breeding

What is the process through which new traits are randomly produced?

• Natural Selection

• Common Descent

• Genetic Mutation

• Selective Breeding

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

• Natural Selection

• Common Descent

• Selective Breeding

• Descent with Modification

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

• Common Descent

• Fossils

• Genetics

• Species Distribution

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

• Selective Breeding

• Descent with Modification

• Genetic Mutation

• Natural Selection