Adaptations and Diversity REVIEW

the process by which populations of organisms with variations that help them survive in their environments live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than those that do not have the variations

• selective breeding

• genetic engineering

• natural selection

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Genetic diversity in a species makes long term survival of some members

• impossible

• improvable

• more likely

• less likely

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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.

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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 color
• Attractive features.

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Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA
• tRNA
• genotype
• phenotype

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Body parts that function like each other, but are different in structure.

• embryos
• homologous structures
• analogous structures
• vestigial structures

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Organisms with these structures are believed to be closely related.

• analogous structures
• homologous structures 
• mutated DNA
• gills

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Which greenhouse gas affects the climate the most?

• water vapor

• carbon dioxide

• methane

• CFC

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Excessive exposure to sunlight can cause skin cancer. In this scenario, skin cancer is caused by:

• External / environmental factors

• The DNA sequence

• The number of chromosomes in a cell

• The amount of DNA in the nucleus

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The diagram shows fossils in different rock layers. Which of these statements about the age of these fossils is most likely correct?

• Fossil A and C are the same age
  
• Fossil B is older than fossil C
• Fossils A is older than fossil B
• Fossil D is older than fossil C

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