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Changes in a body to fit a location.

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Behavior
• Environment

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Which of the following means "genetic change over time"

• natural selection
• speciation
• evolution
• fitness

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A change in a trait or characteristic that increases an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce.

• extinction
• natural selection
• adaptation
• choice

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A chance occurrence that negatively affects a population because the population is small.

• genetic drift
• mutation
• speciation
• migration

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Select the best definition for adaptation:

• trait or characteristic that causes an organism to survive & reproduce

• survival of the fittest

• only the strong will survive

• evolution by means of natural selection

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Is a Behavior and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment.

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Insight learning

• Cooperative behavior

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differences between members of the same species

• variation

• selective breeding

• abundance

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Who is Charles Darwin?

• First man to go to the moon in 1969

• First man to discover DNA and the human genome

• First man to discover adaptations to support his theory of evolution by natural selection

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Dark mice are more likely to survive in the dark rocks because the predators cannot see them as easily.

• True

• False

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Which best explains the relationship between evolution and natural selection?

• Evolution causes natural selection.

• Evolution prevents natural selection.

• Natural selection prevents evolution.

• Natural selection is one aspect of evolution.

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