Evolution and Natural Selection Review

What is it called when an organism is best adapted to its environment, it will survive and reproduce more successfully than other organisms less adapted?

• cloning

• evolution of all species

• natural selection

• selective breeding

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Who was the first naturalist to study evolution?

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendal

• Carolus Linneaus

• Thomas Edison

This is a process by which organisms inherited advantageous traits that tend to reproduce more successfully than the other organisms do. 

• Artificial selection

• Natural selection

• Populations

• Environment

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This is a process in which organisms gradually change over time.

• Environment

• Competition

• Evolution

• Fossils

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Select ALL the parts of Natural Selection.

• overproduction

• evolution

• variation

• selection

• competition

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What do you call different structures with a similar function but NO common ancestor?

• Natural Selection

• Analogous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Homologous Structure

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What is another name for natural selection?

• survival of the smartest

• survival of the fastest

• survival of the biggest

• survival of the fittest

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Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 

• dark

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What do we call structures that no longer perform their original function?

• Natural Selection

• Analogous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Homologous Structure

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Beak shape, camouflage, and webbed feet are all examples of which type of adaptation?

• Behavioral Adaptation

• Physical Adaptation

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