Natural Selection

the process through which species change overtime

• overproduction

• variation

• evolution

• selective breeding

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Evolution results from _____ that are passed on through generations

• genes

• beneficial mutations

• negative mutations

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This scientist became convinced that the fossil record showed that species changed over time

• Charles Darwin

• Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

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Which scientist proposed that individual organisms acquire new traits during their lifetime and pass them on

• Jean Baptiste de Lamark

• Charles Darwin

What type of traits get passed down from parent to offspring

• beneficial traits

• inherited traits

  genetic traits

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This scientist published On The Origin of Species which became the basis of modern theory of evolution

• Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

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This scientist made it to the Galapagos Islands and saw variation in species based on location

• Charles Darwin

• Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

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What does variation mean?

• process by which the organism adapts to their environment

• choosing who you breed with

• Differences in traits

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Why did the finches Darwin studied have different sized beaks?

• They have different food sources

• They were from different parts of the world

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T/F: Darwin noticed that breeders can produce new varieties of animal

over time through selective breeding.

• T

• F

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