Regents Natural Selection

Adaptations can be:

• camouflage

• ability to survive cold weather

• hunting skills

• all of the above

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A yellow morph and green morph of an insect lives in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:

• the green population to increase and the yellow to decrease

• both populations should stay the same

• both populations will increase

• the green population to decrease and the yellow to increaseThis is a wrong answer

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How do you "win" at natural selection?

• survive

• go extinct

• survive & reproduce

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Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin

• Albert Einstein

• Steven Hawking

• Isaac Newton

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An inheirted trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing in a particular environment. (a)  

• Variation

• Differentiation

• Adaptation

• Genetic Specialist

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The process by which organisms with variations that help them survive in their environment live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than those that do not have the variations. (a)  

• Evolution

• Creationism

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

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Survival of the ​ (a)   means that individuals that are better adapted to their ​ (b)   survive and pass on their ​ (c)   more successfully.

• fittest

• environment

• traits

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Which organisms are most likely to survive?

• the best adapted

• the fastest

• the strongest

• the most domesticated (tamed)

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Natural Selection is driven by a change in the environment and survival of the

• Earth

• Fastest

• Fittest

• Biggest

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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