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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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Theory of Evolution by natural selection: 

• populations will change over time to better fit their environment 
• genetic traits that aid evolution are not passed on to offspring
• variation does not exist between members of the same species
• no more offspring are born into a population that can survive 

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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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The presence of snakes creating an environment where high poison levels in newts becomes the adaptive trait is an example of a

• prediction

• effect

• cause

• distribution

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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 look cooler.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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An arctic hare experiences a genetic variation that keeps its coat from changing to white for the winter season. Which element in the environment would pose the greatest threat because of this variation?

• pesticides

• predators

• pollution

• prey

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Why would the trait for no hair be non-adaptive in a cold environment?

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

• Because they come from recessive alleles.

• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

• Because they come from dominant alleles.

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce

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Which best explains why mammals became dominant after the mass extinction of the dinosaurs?

• They had traits that helped them adapt to environmental changes.

• They were larger than dinosaurs and ate different foods.

• They lived in different areas on Earth than dinosaurs.

• They were able to hibernate for thousands of years.

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