Natural Selection Lesson Check

What is the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources in the same place at the same time?

• mechanism

• natural selection

• competition

• mutation

What is the process by which organisms are best adapted to their environment are most likely to survive and reproduce?

• mechanism

• natural selection

• competition

• mutation

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What is the natural process by which something takes place?

• mechanism

• natural selection

• competition

• mutation

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What is any change in the DNA of a gene or a chromosome?

• mechanism

• natural selection

• competition

• mutation

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Darwin identified three factors affecting the process of natural selection. What are they?

• competition

• overproduction

• variation

• mutation

• adaptation

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A classmate claims that all mutations are bad AND inheritable. What would be a valid response to this claim?

• Mutations can be passed from parent to offspring, but sometimes they are advantageous.

• Mutations can be passed from parent to offspring, and they are always harmful.

• Mutations cannot be passed from parent to offspring, and they are always harmful.

• Mutations cannot be passed from parent to offspring, but sometimes they are advantageous.

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Lucy volunteers at an animal shelter, and she takes care of an orange tabby cat and her kittens. Some of the kittens have orange markings, but some have gray markings. What units of genetic material determine how living things look?

• traits

• genes

• variations

• mutations

Diego works at a plant nursery. He really enjoys the roses. Select the sentence that describes a mutation.

• There are many colors of roses, from red to yellow, and even black.

• Most roses have thorns to protect against pests.

• One rose has a flower growing inside a flower.

• Roses have a scent that attracts pollinators.

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Artificial selection, also known as selective breeding or animal husbandry, is the process by which humans breed only the individuals that have a desired trait in order to make the trait more common. Natural selection is the process by which organisms that are best adapted to their environment are most likely to survive and reproduce. Sort the examples into those that are the result of natural selection versus those that are the result of artificial selection.

Groups:

(a) Natural Selection

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(b) Artificial Selection

• breeding of ornamental fish
• breeding of racehorses
• giraffes' long necks

• camouflage in chameleons

• finch beak variations

• peppered moth coloration

• domestication of dogs
• genetically modified crops
• cultivation of hybrid corn
• antibiotic resistance in bacteria

• development of seedless watermelons
• adaptation of polar bears to cold

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