Natural Selection and speciation

Evolution means

• Change over time

• Staying the same over time

• Heritability of traits

• The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

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An inherited trait that increases an organisms ability to survive and reproduce in its environment is called a(n)

• Allele

• Fitness

• Variation

• Genes

• Adaptation

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The process where organisms better adapted to their environment survive and have offspring is called

(a)  

• Natural Selection
• Fitness
• Artificial Selection
• Speciation

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Successful adaptations will increase a species ability to survive and reproduce in their environment - this means the species has high ​ (a)  

• Fitness
• Variation
• Selection
• Adaptation

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In the image, which cricket has the best adaptations and highest fitness for this environment?

• Orange cricket

• Green cricket

• Purple cricket

• Yellow cricket

Answer explanation

The green cricket is green which helps it blend with the leaves of the plant, this is an adaptation for the cricket in this environment since the "camo" it has will help it evade predators - it has a higher chance of survival and more likely to have offspring.

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​ (a)   modifies populations of organisms, the fittest survive and reproduce, passing on their traits. ​ (b)   species die out. Populations diverge over time into ​ (c)   . This is ​a basic summary of how (d)   works.

• Natural Selection
• Unfit
• new species
• Biological Evolution

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The process where a group of organisms from a species separates from other members of its species and develops its own unique characteristics and becomes different than the original group

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Speciation

• Artificial Selection

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