Variation in Species

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

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

• Charles Barkley

• Isaac Newton

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 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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What is an organism that has similar characteristics and can reproduce?

• species

• organism

• embryology

• vestigial 

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Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 

• dark

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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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Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.

• Fossil

• Adaptation

• Ancestor

• Natural selection

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A slight difference in an inherited trait between individual members of the same species.

• variations

• adapatations

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

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These cause variations.

• mutations

• adaptations

• a desire to change

• injuries

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The discovery of DNA and genes proved that

• Darwin was wrong

• mutations create variations and come from genes

• we are all the same species

• bats and butterflies have a very close common ancestor

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