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- 1. Multiple Choice
A yellow morph and green morph of an insect lives in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:
the green population to increase and the yellow to decrease
both populations should stay the same
both populations will increase
the green population to decrease and the yellow to increaseThis is a wrong answer
- 2. Multiple Choice
What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?
natural selection
mutation
camouflage
adaptation
- 3. Multiple ChoiceDogs such as Chihuahuas are examples of....Artificial SelectionNatural SelectionMutations
- 4. Multiple Choice
Natural Selection is driven by a change in the environment and survival of the
Earth
Fastest
Fittest
Biggest
- 5. Multiple Choice
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 organism knew it needed that trait, survives, and passes it on.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Mutations are a change in what?
DNA
tRNA
protein
rRNA
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhy 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
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat process is being shown in this image?VariationNatural SelectionSelective BreedingHomeostasis
- 9. Multiple Choice
Where do adaptations come from?
The individual organism decides to adapt
Mutations that give an organism an advantage in its environment
Genetic recombination during meiosis
Both mutations and genetic recombination are sources of adaptation
- 10. Multiple Choice
"Organisms that are better adapted to the environment survive to pass traits to their offspring" is the definition of
Natural Selection
Evolution
Selective Breeding
Artificial Selection
- 11. Multiple Choice
According to natural selection, light colored tree trunks would favor
light colored moths
dark colored moths
red colored moths
red and light colored moths
- 12. Multiple Choice
Speciation can occur as a result of geographic isolation because _________.
members of a species can no longer find mates
populations that live in different environments may be exposed to different selection pressures
exchange of genes during recombination
movement of genes within a population because of interbreeding
- 13. Multiple Choice
_______________ occurs when a population declines to a very small number then goes back up but results in a permanent loss of genetic diversity in the population (example: the Cheetah population)
coevolution
bottleneck
archaeopteryz
mutation
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhat does the picture represent?Founder EffectMutationsBottleneck effectGene Flow
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhat does the image represent?Founder effectBottleneck effectNatural SelectionMutations
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