Natural Selection and Population Genetics Quiz Review

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What are the 4 Principles of Natural Selection?

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Variation of traits, competition to survive, overproduction of offspring, and survival of the fittest.

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What is a Population?

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A group of the same species, living together in a specific area.

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What is Variation?

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It increases an organism's chance of survival.

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Match the term: Organisms with traits well suited to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than organisms less suited to the same environment.

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Natural Selection.

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What are Mutations?

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A change in DNA causing an advantage for an organism to develop a new trait.

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What is Gene Flow?

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The movement of genes from one population to another.

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What is Genetic Drift?

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Random change in the alleles in a population.