Biology Evolution

Who was the naturalist that traveled the world to study plants and animals?

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

• Charles Barkley

• Isaac Newton

The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution

• Nucleotide 

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

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Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  

• become extinct
  

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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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What is Evolution?

• The change of climate over time

• The change of genetic information of a population over time

• The change of geological formations over time

• The change of technology over time

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The theory of evolution states that

• species change over time, sometimes developing into new species

• species that are extinct have no biological relationship to living species

• the environment of Earth is constant over time

• different animal species always interbreed to form new and different species

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The theory of evolution states that...

• Change happens rappidly

• Genes point to common ancestry

• Change happens to individuals

• Change happens gradually, over time

• Change happens in populations

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Evolution is the widely held notion that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor: the birds and the bananas, the fishes and the flowers
 -- all related That is, complex creatures evolve from more simplistic ancestors naturally over time.

• Fact

• Theory

• Law

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What is a change in an organism that allows for it to survive in its environment?

• homologous

• vestigial

• variation

• adaptation

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What is this an example of?

• diversity of species

• variation

• vestigial structures

• DNA studies

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