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- 1. Multiple Choice
What do you call a related organism from a previous generation?
ancestor
adaptive trait
distribution
environment
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is a way of hiding by looking the same as the background?
feature
distribution
chromosome
camouflage
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is an event that results in an outcome or a change?
effect
cause
feature
distribution
- 4. Multiple Choice
The presence of snakes creating an environment where high poison levels in newts becomes the adaptive trait is an example of a
prediction
effect
cause
distribution
- 5. Multiple Choice
An adaptive trait depends on the (fill in the blank)
environment
species
natural selection
predation
- 6. Multiple Choice
Is being yellow always an adaptive trait in ostrilopes in a yellow environment?
Yes, it always is an adaptive trait because of camouflage
No, it never is because ostrilopes don't have adaptive traits
No, it only is when the ostrilopes have predators
Yes, it always is because carnithons can't see them
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is a feature?
everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
an instruction for making a protein molecule
a change that happens because of an event
a characteristic that all members of a species have
- 8. Multiple Choice
What does a histogram show?
Adaptive and non-adaptive traits
The distribution of traits within a population
The variation of features for a species
The variation of adaptive traits within a population
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is an instruction for making a protein molecule?
a mutation
a chromosome
a feature
a gene
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
A non-adaptive trait
A feature
A trait
An adaptive trait
- 11. Multiple Choice
What information can you gain from this histogram?
The population has high distribution
The population has low variation
The population has high variation
The population has no variation
- 12. Multiple Choice
What can you tell about this population of Thornpalms from the histogram?
High water storage is an adaptive trait
It has a non-adaptive trait
It has medium to high variation
It has low variation
- 13. Multiple Choice
What can you tell about this population of newts from the histogram
Most of the newts have high poison levels
Most of the newts have medium poison levels
Low poison level is the adaptive trait
You cannot tell anything about the poison levels
- 14. Multiple Choice
Where do the genes that determine an individual's traits come from?
An individual can be born with any genes, since genes are random.
Individuals grow genes specific to their environment.
Parents pass their genes down to their offspring.
Parents choose which genes their offspring have when each individual is born.
- 15. Multiple Choice
How can an individual be born with an adaptive trait?
The individual can choose to change to the adaptive trait when they want to.
The parents had genes for the adaptive trait, which they passed down to the individual.
The individual can choose to have the adaptive trait at birth.
The parents can choose for the offspring to have genes for the adaptive trait.
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