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K-selected species 

• produce few offspring, but with high levels of parental care
• produce many offspring, but with low levels of parental care
• have medium levels of offspring produced as well as parental care
• none of these

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Over many hundreds of years, a population of rabbits living in the woods adapts to its surrounding with brown fur.

• All living things adapt to their environment
• All living things grow and develop
• All living things use energy
• All living things maintain homeostasis

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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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What does the image represent?

• Gene flow
• Gene drift
• Mutation
• Adaptation

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Modern whales developed their traits through natural selection.  What occurs during the process of natural selection?

• Organisms choose mates from other species to create new species
• Breeders selectively cross organisms with desired traits
• Only the fittest organisms can survive and reproduce
• Organisms remain exactly the same over time.

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The allele frequencies of the mouse population in the picture are changing over time. Which is true?

• The population is evolving.

• The population is not evolving.

• The population will go extinct.

• The population's genetic variation is increasing.

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Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 
• dark

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Where do adaptations come from?

• The individual organism decides to adapt

• Mutations that give an organism an advantage in its environment

• Genetic recombination during meiosis

• Both mutations and genetic recombination are sources of adaptation

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Which traits were selected for in whale ancestors?

• Traits that helped them walk on land

• Traits that helped them move in water

• Traits that helped them give birth

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A camel has eyelashes that work to keep the dust and sand out of its eyes.

• All living things adapt to their environment
• All living things grow
• All living things have cells
• All living things use energy

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