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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?Charles DarwinAlbert EinsteinSteven HawkingIsaac Newton
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Behavioral changes of individuals of a species that allow for better survival. (Acquired traits)VariationAdaptationBehaviorEnvironment
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.EvolutionNatural SelectionExtinctionArtifical Selection
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?To look different from other species.To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.To protect itself against predators.To protect itself against prey.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The theory of evolution by natural selection means that what is changing over time?The inherited traits of a population.The acquired traits of a population.Hair color and eye colorAttractive features.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.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.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Mutations are a change in what?DNAtRNAgenotypephenotype
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What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?
natural selection
mutation
camouflage
adaptation
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which organisms are most likely to survive?the best adaptedthe fastestthe strongestthe most domesticated (tamed)
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Do organisms "decide" to evolve and change?Yes, they know they need to change to surviveNo, they change because of natural selection
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are calledgenes.variations.traits.theories.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.When every organism of a given species has diedNatural SelectionHomeostasisExtinctionSelective Breeding
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The trees these moths used to live on were white, but have been covered in soot from coal factories. Which moth will be more successful in this environment?Dark mothLight mothBoth will be equally successfulNeither will be successful - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Since the 1800s humans have stopped burning coal, and the trees have returned to their original color. Which moth will be more successful in this environment?Dark mothLight mothBoth will be equally successfulNeither will be successful
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What process is being shown in this image?VariationNatural SelectionSelective BreedingHomeostasis
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Why is the mouse population changing over time?The light mice can reproduce more successfully than the dark miceThe hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because the dark mice taste betterThe hawks eat more light mice than dark mice because they can see the light mice more easilyThe hawks eat more dark mice than light mice because they can see the dark mice more easily
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of these statements best describes what Darwin observed on the Galapagos Islands?The finch population on each island was uniqueThe finches on the islands ate seeds and nuts, but no insectsThe finches on the islands were the same as the finches in EcuadorThe finches could produce offspring only with finches from other islands
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Where do adaptations come from?The individual organism decides to adaptMutations that give an organism an advantage in its environment
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.These moths are all the same species. The differences between their wings is an example of ________________Natural SelectionVariationHomeostasisExtinction
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Organisms that are better adapted to the environment survive to pass traits to their offspringNatural SelectionHomeostasisSelective BreedingExtinction
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which best describes the role of mutations in natural selection?Mutations help an organism to better survive in their environmentAn organism may acquire a helpful mutation by interacting with the environmentA mutation may result in an adaptive trait that makes an organism more likely to survive and reproduceOrganisms with certain traits are more likely to win competitions for mutations
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Selective breeding is where ___________ decides which traits should be passed onNatureA humanMr. HoltThe illuminati
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Natural selection is where ___________ decides which traits should be passed onNatureA humanMr. HoltThe illuminati
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.All rabbits living in a particular area would be an example of a(n)populationspeciesfossilindividual organism
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.a bird that can easily outcompete other birds for food and that can produce many eggs has a highlife expectancymutation ratefitnessadaptability
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.a measure of how commonly a particular allele occurs in a population is known as thegene poolallele frequencymutation ratephenotype
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The more genetic variation a population has,
the more likely it is for some individuals to
evolve
migrate
survive
mutate
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Mutations are important because they bring aboutdeath of the organism in which they developgenetic variation needed for a population to evolvebenefits for the individual, not for the populationHardey-Weinberg equilibrium within a population
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.An organism's appearance or other observable characteristics:phenotyperecessivegenotypedominant
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.An organism's genetic make-up:phenotyperecessivegenotypedominant