Evolutionary Theory

An adaptation is all of these things EXCEPT

• decreases chance of survival

• increases chance of survival

• always heritable

• always beneficial

• can be acquired by previous generation and not genetic

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Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring? 

• Evolution 

• Variation 

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection 

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The cause of artificial selection is…

• The environment

• Humans

• Mutation

• Gene Flow

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Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 

• dark

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Genetic differences between organisms of the same species

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Behavior

• Environment

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He developed the theory of evolution

• Linnaeus

• Lamarck

• Darwin

• Aristotle

What animal characteristic did Darwin observe on the Galapagos Islands that caused him develop his theory of evolution?

• penguin feathers

• bird dances

• finch beaks

• iguana tails

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This model of evolution shows change over a relatively short period of time?

• gradualism

• skip-step evolution

• punctuated equilibrium

• evolution doesn't happen this way

Change over time

• evolution

• natural selection

• punctuated equilibrium

• variation

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He believed that traits acquired during an organism’s lifetime could be passed onto offspring

• Linnaeus

• Lamarck

• Darwin

• Aristotle