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The environment around Manchester, England, changed during the Industrial Revolution.  How did this change affect peppered moths living in the area?

• Natural selection favored moths with dark wings because predators could not see them on the soot-colored trees.
• Natural selection favored moths with white wings that were easy for predators to see.
• Natural selection favored moths with white wings because predators could not see them on the soot-colored trees.
• Natural selection caused moths with white wings to become extinct.

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Successful traits are passed onto offspring through natural circumstances. 

• Natural Selection
• Primary Succession
• Secondary Succession
• Dominant

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Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.

• Fossil
• Adaptation
• Ancestor
• Natural selection

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As a species evolve, they develop ________ and ________ others

• old traits, save
• new traits, save
• old traits, lose
• new traits, lose

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Adaptation occurs...

• in one individual organism after several years in a new environment

• in one individual organism after a lifetime in an environment

• right away in every member of a species after a year in a new environment

• only in the species' next generation

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A yellow morph and green morph of an insect lives in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:

• the green population to increase and the yellow to decrease

• both populations should stay the same

• both populations will increase

• the green population to decrease and the yellow to increaseThis is a wrong answer

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Which term refers to physical characteristics that are studied in genetics

• traits

• offspring

• generations

• hybrids

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F1F2 for silk flexibility is an example of

• a feature.

• a gene version

• a trait.

• a nucleus.

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Why did the population of peppered moths in England change from light to dark after the Industrial Revolution?

• Light moths were easy to see against blackened sooty trees and were eaten

• Light moths were killed by soot

• The birds that ate the dark moths were killed by soot

• Dark moths were produced by industrial processes

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Organisms with traits that are best suited for their environments are likely to have a greater chance for survival. These helpful traits, which arise due to genetic mutations, are known as _____________________.

• Mutation

• Adaptations

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

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