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WorksheetsAdaptation and Selection
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
The theory that species gradually change over time, through random variations that improve the chances of certain individuals to survive and reproduce.
Natural selection
Evolution
Adaptation
Mutation
A small piece of DNA that codes for a protein.
Mutation
Genome
Gene
Trait
An example of Natural Selection:
A farmer who only mates the biggest and fastest horses.
A florist crossing a red rose with a white rose to create pink roses.
A genetic engineer creating pest resistant cabbage by using scorpion poison.
A plant being cross pollinated from another plant when a bee carrying pollen, lands on it.
Example of this are: green eyes, curly hair, freckles and being tall.
Mutations
Traits
Adaptations
Genes
Which fact would you expect to be true about these moths living in a DARK environment?
Both moths would survive at equal rates.
The white moth would avoid predators and reproduce because their bodies reflect heat from the sun.
Both moths would die off because they are easy targets for predators.
The dark moth would avoid predators by blending in with the environment.
What is this picture an example of?
Artificial selection
Natural selection
Extinction
Genetic engineering
The changing of genes in a laboratory to produce a particular trait in an organism.
Genetic engineering
Genetics
Evolution
Mutation
Which bird beak is adapted to get into tight spaces to eat small insects?
#1 (top left)
#2 (top right)
All of the beaks
#4 (bottom right)
Crossing carefully chosen plants or animals to produce offspring with certain desirable traits.
Natural selection
Evolution
Artificial Selection
Genome
A change in genes that produces a trait in an animal or plant that did not appear in its parents.
Mutation
Genetics
Artificial selection
Survival of the fittest
This picture shows how scientists have been able to create all of these vegetables from one plant. This is:
Natural selection
Artificial selection
Adaptation
Traits
The continued existence of organisms which are best adapted to their environment, with the extinction of others that are not well adapted to their environment.
Artificial selection
Mutation
Genetic engineering
Survival of the fittest
A frog having webbed feet for swimming in water would be an example of a(n):
Trait
Adaptation
Both answers are correct
The ancestor finch on the left would most likely NOT be best adapted to eat . . .
Small seed found on the ground
Fruit with seeds
Small insects that are found on trees
Nectar (sweet liquids) found deep within flowers
