Module 14 Evolution

What was the name of the scientist who developed the theory of evolution?

• Lamarck

• Einstein

• Washington

• Darwin

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Natural selection is when ____________ "chooses" who survives and who doesn't

• the environment

• humans

• animals

• years

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Changes in characteristics of an organism, over thousands of years, that make the better suited to their environment

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Behavior

• Environment

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When every organism of a species has died.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass on their characteristics to their offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
• To protect itself against predators.
• To protect itself against prey.

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The theory of evolution by natural selection means that what is changing over time?

• The inherited characteristics of a population.

• The characteristics caused by the environment

• Hair color and eye color

• Attractive features.

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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 gradual development of a species into a new one to survive.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass characteristics along to their offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artificial Selection

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