Natural Selection Quiz

What is the phrase that represents natural selection?

• Survival of the fittest

• Everyone lives

• No one survives

• livin la Vida Loca

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What are the traits called that look similar from species to species?

• evolutionary characteristics

• homologous structures

• ancient structures

• fossils

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Which is the best description of Darwin's theory of evolution?

• It describes DNA passed from parent to offspring as the driving force of evolution

• It states that all species evolve over time through natural selection

• It doesn't exist

• It is a myth

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What is a mutation?

• When traits are passed on from parent to offspring

• When scientists create organisms in a lab

• Change in the sequence of DNA

• A type of cereal

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Organisms that can adapt to changes in their environment are most likely to survive and reproduce, while those that cannot adapt die out. This idea is known as:

• natural selection

• evolution

• mutation

• homozygous

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Which scientist is given credit for the theory of natural selection?

• Charles Darwin

• George Washington

• Thomas Edison

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What does common ancestor mean?

• an organism from which two or more organisms are descended

• a relative that lives in the same location

• another type of organism that shares the same food

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Monkeys and humans share a common ancestor. Which of these traits was mostly likely present in the adult form of that organism?

• gills

• hair

• fins

• blowhole

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In what area of the world did Charles Darwin make field observation that supported and furthered his thinking about evolution?

• North America

• Galapagos Islands

• Eastern Europe

• Asia

True or False: People breeding animals can choose and enhance desirable traits over time.

• True

• False

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