EVOLUTION

What do you call a characteristic that allows an organism to survive in an environment?

• variation

• adaptation

• selection

• overproduction

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Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

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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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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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Where humans have bred organisms together based on traits we like.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction 
• Artificial Selection

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Genetic differences between organisms of the same species

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Behavior
• Environment

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Two organisms that are closely related would have

• very similar DNA sequence
• exactly the same DNA sequences
• no proteins in common
• completely different DNA sequence

True or False?
Generations of a species that are farther apart from each other look the most different.

• True
• False

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The law of superposition (strata) states

• the oldest rock layer is on the top, the younger rock layer is on the bottom

• rock layers are always in sequence from oldest to youngest

• the youngest rock layer is on the bottom and the oldest is on the top

• the oldest layer is on the bottom and the youngest is on the top when it is undisturbed