People & Natural Selection Quizizz

_________ wrote the Earth processes today are the same as in the past. He proposed that the Earth changed very slowly by small, gradual changes

• Alfred Russel Wallace

• Thomas Malthus

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

_____ was a British economist who believed that human population growth would be limited by available resources and lead to competition

• Alfred Russel Wallace

• Thomas Malthus

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Lyell

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Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring? 

• Evolution 
• Variation 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection 

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The white feathers of a snowy owl allow it to blend in with its environment during the winter months (snow). This is an example of ________________

• Species
• Environmental Change
• Adaptation
• Variation

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The struggle for existence against other members of an organisms species is.... (caused by overproduction)

• Competition

• Natural Selection

• gene flow

• genetic drift

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.

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Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA
• tRNA
• genotype
• phenotype

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What do we call change over time by heritable traits?

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Natural Variation

• Speciation

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Lamarck thought that the differences organisms are a result of

• inheritance of traits from past generations

• acquired/developed traits during an organism's lifetime

• an unchanging local environment.

• the natural variations already present within the population of organisms.

a principle that states that geologic processes that occurred in the past can be explained by current geologic processes.

• Unconformity

• Uniformitarianism

• Superposition

• Catastrophism

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