Evolution- Natural Selection (R)

Why is the mouse population changing over time?

• The light mice can reproduce more successfully than the dark mice

• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because the dark mice taste better

• The hawks eat more light mice than dark mice because they can see the light mice more easily

• The hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because they can see the dark mice more easily

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These moths are all the same species. The differences between their wings is an example of ________________

• Natural Selection

• Variation

• Homeostasis

• Extinction

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Evolution is the result of a process called ____________

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Survival of the Weakest

• Supernatural Selection

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What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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When nature "selects" a variation, that means that the trait:

• Gets passed along from generation to generation

• Causes the population to shrink

• Has brought about a new species

• Helps prey escape predators

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What is an inherited trait?

• A skill that is developed through practice

• A characteristic determined by an organism's genes

• an organism's place in the food web

• an organisms relationship to its parents

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Match the following terms with their definitions

• Any variation that makes an organism better able to survive

• Variation

• A permanent change in the DNA

• Evolution

• An inherited trait that makes and individual different

• Adaptation

• a change in a species DNA over time because of natural selection

• Mutation

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Animals and plants can choose to adapt to their environment and the effects of natural selection can usually be seen in a very short time.

• True

• False

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Animals compete for resources in the environment. This will affect an organism's survival.

• True

• False

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