Evolution

According to natural selection, light colored tree trunks would favor

• light colored moths

• dark colored moths

• red colored moths

• red and light colored moths

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The process through which humans breed animals and plants for desired traits.

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Population

• Variation

The formation of a new species is called

• Natural selection

• Struggle for existence

• Speciation

• Darwinism

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A new river forms and splits two populations, causing ______________ speciation

• Sympatric

• Allopatric

• Extreme

• Convergent

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Circle the mice that would survive in this enviroment.

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Who was the Scientist most famous for his study of natural selection and evolution?

• Theodor Schwann

• Robert Hooke

• Charles Darwin

• Rudolf Virchow

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What is the process in which populations CHANGE over time?

• evolution

• species

• variation

• competition

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What do you call similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor?

• Natural Selection

• Analogous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Homologous Structure

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

• Natural Selection

• Analogous Structure

• Vestigial Structure

• Homologous Structure

What do you call a characteristic that allows an organism to survive in an environment?

• variation

• adaptation

• selection

• overproduction

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