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The process by which populations slowly change over time is called

• selective breeding
• adaptation
• speciation
• evolution

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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Which is the best example of an adaptation?

• Camouflage

• Chromosomes

• Albinism

• Freckles

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_____ is referred to as survival of the fittest.

• natural selection

• mutating

• evolution

• adapting

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What is a triat?

• an organism

• the personality of an organism

• the mentality of an organism

• a characteristic of an organism

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A beneficial __________ in neck length spreads throughout a tortoise population through natural selection.

• offspring

• species

• ancestor

• variation

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What are Genetic Traits?

• a total of all biotic and abiotic things in an ecological community

• specific characteristic determined by the genes in DNA

• A change in the DNA sequence

• Process by which an organism that better adapts to their environment survive and reproduce

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any difference in traits between individual organisms

• homozygous

• heterozygous

• gene version

• variation

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How do species change over time?

• frequency (amount) of certain alleles in a population

• towards perfection

• through individual evolution

• through acquired traits

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