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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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Evolution means...

• Change over time in a population.
• That everything is the same.
• That organisms never change.
• Negative traits are acquired in populations.

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Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 
• dark

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An inherited trait that makes an individual different from other members of its species is called (can be good or bad) --

• an adaptation
• a variation
• species
• natural selection

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On a farm, Marcia observes that individuals of a certain goat species have slightly different sizes and colors. What characteristic of populations is Marcia observing?

• adaption

• evolution

• selection

• variation

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Individuals in a population that have the traits needed to survive in the environment get to survive and reproduce. Their offspring inherit those traits. Over time, a greater percentage of the population will have those successful traits.

• Natural selection

• Selective breeding

• Artificial selection

• Mutations

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Process where organisms having certain inherited traits are better able to survive and reproduce in their environment is called ___________.

• genetics

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• principals of inheritance

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Why did dark moths have a survival advantage when they were near factories?

• They could hide in the birds shadow.

• They could push the white moths into the flames.

• They did not have a survival advantage.

• They blended in with the dark tree trunks.

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Mimicry

• The resemblance of one species to another species.

• Is a slight difference in an inherited trait of individual members of a species.

• Is an inherited trait that increases the organism’s chance of surviving and reproducing in its environment.

• A person who studies plants and animals by observing them.

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"Survival of the fittest" describes which theory

• Natural selection

• Selective breeding

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