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WorksheetsModule 1: Natural & Artificial Selection Review
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 19mins
The process that explains how organisms with traits best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.
Adaptations
Principle of variation
Competition
Natural selection
The process by which new individual organisms (offspring) are produced from their parents.
Selection
Variation
Competion
Reproduction
The differences in inherited traits among individual members of a species.
Reproduction
Variation
Competition
Selection
A relationship between organisms who are striving for the same resource in the same place.
Reproduction
Variation
Selection
Competition
The process that explains how organisms with traits best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.
Selection
Competition
Variation
Reproduction
The process by which populations of organisms with variations that help them survive in their environments live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than those without the variations.
Principle of uniformitarianism
Traits
Theory of evolution
Genetics
Which best describes the role of mutations in natural selection?
Mutations help an organism to better survive in their environment
An organism may acquire a helpful mutation by interacting with the environment
A mutation may result in a beneficial trait that makes an organism more likely to survive and reproduce
Organisms with certain traits are more likely to win competitions for mutations
All rabbits of the same species living in a particular area would be an example of a(n)
population
species
community
ecosystem
The more genetic variation a population has, the more likely it is for some individuals to ______________.
evolve
migrate
survive
mutate
When the environment changes more quickly than a species can adapt, the species may become:
Cold
Overdeveloped
Overpopulated
Extinct
The selection and breeding of organisms with desired traits.
Selective breeding
Genetic mutations
Competition
Variation
The biological and chemical methods that change the arrangement of DNA that makes up a gene.
Variations
Mutations
Genetic engineering
Principle of superposition
Food products that have been genetically modified.
GDOs
GFOs
GMOs
GTOs
Reasons to genetically modify foods...
Produce larger fruits
Make pest resistant vegetables
Produce food that grows faster
All of the above
The process of choosing parent organisms for desired characteristics is called
natural selection
Artificial selection
random selection
genetic manipulation
Which statement is true comparing natural selection and artificial selection?
In natural selection, traits benefit humans and in artificial selection, the traits benefit the species
In natural selection, traits benefit the species and in artificial selection, the traits benefit humans
In natural and artificial selection, the process takes hundreds of years to occur
In natural and artificial selection, nature determines what traits will be passed down to offspring.
When a farmer breeds only his or her best livestock, the process involved is.......
natural selection
artificial variation
artificial selection
survival of the fittest
What is gene therapy?
A process in which modern geneticists can transfer a gene from the DNA of one organism into another.
A process of changing a gene to treat a medical disease or disorder.
A process of creating clones with the same genes as the organism from which they were produced.
A process of selectively breeding organisms with desired traits.
What is the main goal of selective breeding?
To increase genetic diversity
To allow natural evolution
To create random mutations
To produce organisms with desired traits
These molecules are required for the structures and functions of the body and express traits.
Variations
Adaptations
Mutations
Proteins
An organism's genetic material
Proteins
DNA
Chromosomes
Traits
A segment of DNA in the chromosome that provides directions for a cell to assemble proteins that express traits.
Gene
Chromosome
Protein
Mutation
Characteristics passed on from one generation to the next.
Mutations
Genes
DNA
Traits
Permanent changes in the sequence of DNA which can change an organism's traits.
Traits
Mutations
Genes
Chromosomes
Beneficial, harmful or neutral mutation (see image)
Beneficial
Harmful
Neutral
Beneficial, harmful or neutral mutation (see image)
Beneficial
Harmful
Neutral
A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
Genetics
Adaptations
Families
Species
Differences in inherited traits among individual members of a species.
Adaptations
Variations
Selections
Evolution
Variations occur through these changes in DNA sequence (they can be harmful, not harmful, or beneficial)
mutations
variation
mimicry
camouflage
