the process of evolution

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? 

• Variation 

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection 

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Definition: fitness

• ability to survive and reproduce in a specific environment

• a growing population causes a scarcity of resources

• differences in the DNA sequence

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Organisms with the most beneficial traits will survive.  This is commonly known as ___.

• variations
  

• survival of the fittest

• ecosystems
  

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The effect that is produced when an insect carries pollen grains from one population to another is called

• gene flow

• random mating

• coevolution

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During a school project, Nouf and Haifa were randomly assigned different tasks. The way they ended up with their tasks was a __________________ event.

• chance

• common

• growth

Rital and Tala observed how butterflies and the flowers they pollinate are evolving together in their garden. This would be an example of...

• Divergent Evolution

• Speciation

• Coevolution

What is a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment. Also called survival of the fittest?

• Phenotype

• Mutation

• Natural Selection

• Heredity

measure of an organisms's ability to survive and produce offspring relative to other members of a population 

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Fitness

• Variation

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Coevolution is the

• Species looking similar due to a common ancestor

• Species looking similar due to a common environment

• evolution of two species that do not interact

• evolution of one species in response to evolution in another species

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In a garden, Leen noticed that some of the flowers had slightly different colors, even though they were all the same type of flower. This slight difference in color is an example of an inherited trait between individual members of the same species.

• variations

• adapatations

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

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