Adaptation and Natural Selection

A characteristic or feature that increases an organism's ability to survive within a changing environment.

• adaptation
• hibernation
• migration
• Natural Selection

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Blending in with surroundings

• hibernation
• Natural Selection
• camouflage
• variation

The process in which only organisms best suited to a particular environment survive.

• Selective Breeding
• Behavioral adaptation
• Structural adaptation
• Natural Selection

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any difference between organisms of the same species

• adaptation
• camouflage
• selective breeding
• variation

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When an organism copies a characteristic of something else in order to better its chances for survival and reproduction

• hibernation
• camouflage
• mimicry
• migration

A change in DNA.

• Competition
• Mutation
• Species
• Fitness

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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Instincts are:

• Body parts that help a living thing survive in its environment

• Inherited behaviors that help a living thing survive in its environment

• Learned behaviors that help a living thing survive in its environment

True or false: Animals can choose their adaptations

• True
• False

Cactus have a thick waxy coating on their stem. What is the advantage of this adaptation?

• increases chances to reproduce

• Maintains homeostasis in the dry environment

• Improves its protections from desert animals

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