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6th - 8th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The slight differences in stripe patterns in a zebra population is known as 

Adaptation
Variation

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2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

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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3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Due to a mutation, some jaguars inherit larger jaw sizes than other jaguars within that population and this trait is passed down from parent to offspring. This gives those jaguars an advantage when it comes to hunting down turtles as prey.
Of the four parts of natural selection, which is this an example of?

overproduction
genetic variation
selection
adaptation

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4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Mutations are important because they bring about

death of the organism in which they develop
genetic variation needed for a population to evolve
benefits for the individual, not for the population
Hardey-Weinberg equilibrium within a population

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5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What is it called when better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to their offspring.

Evolution
Natural Selection
Extinction
Artifical Selection

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6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

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Bob the abominable snowman lives in the snowy Andes mountains. He has white fur, which blends in nicely. He is therefore dismayed when his mate keeps having red-furred babies. What is Bob's likely genotype?

Homozygous Dominant
Heterozygous
Homozygous Recessive

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7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Successful traits are passed onto offspring through natural circumstances. 

Natural Selection
Primary Succession
Secondary Succession
Dominant

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