Natural & Artificial Selection

The process where organisms that are best suited to their environments survive and pass on their genetic traits to offspring.

• Mutation

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A change in an organism that makes it better suited to its environment, such as thick fur or camouflage coloring.

• Mutation

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Random changes in DNA that can lead to beneficial, harmful, or neutral effects in an organism.

• Mutation

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

According to Darwin, individuals in a population have variations that can help them survive better than others.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What type of mutation leads to structures in an organism not functioning properly or not functioning at all?

• Beneficial

• Harmful

• Neutral

• Adaptive

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

What type of mutation leads to random, new adaptations in organisms which can help the organism better survive in its environment?

• Beneficial

• Harmful

• Neutral

• Adaptive

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What type of mutation leads to structures in an organism that are not necessarily good or bad? These don't always produce physicals traits, but sometimes do.

• Beneficial

• Harmful

• Neutral

• Adaptive

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

What is the best way to describe "survival of the fittest"?

• Organisms who are the strongest and most physically fit are the ones who survive

• Organisms have helpful traits which allow them to survive in their environment are then able to to reproduce

• Organisms who can't reproduce will eventually die out

• If an organism changes during its lifetime, these changes will get passed down to its offspring

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The process in which humans choose desirable traits in an organism, and then breed that organism to produce offspring with the desired traits.

• Mutation

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-5

Selective breeding is a new idea. It has only been around since the 1800s.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-5