Natural Selection Review

______ adapt to their environment.

• Individuals

• Species

• Organisms

• Mutations

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Natural Selection is BEST described as

• Ability to generate new traits that better suit the species

• Increasing the perfection of a species

• Gradual change in existing traits over time

• Causing the death of a large portion of the population

If weather in normally warm ecosystems changes to become cold, what change might occur?

• Cold weather would cause mutations to make organisms adapt

• IF a mutation occurred for thicker fur, it will be passed on

• Evolution would occur resulting in extinction

• Nothing would change

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This is an example of Natural Selection: "Fruit flies with an enzyme that can digest more food will increase in numbers."

• True

• False

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This is an example of Natural Selection: "A plant without thorns grows thorns to deter predators"

• True

• False

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Variation is...

• guess based on previous knowledge

• each individual having a unique combination of traits

• small changes in populations that add up to big differences

• mistake in copying genes

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The organisms with the most favorable traits in a population..

• are least likely to survive

• will not pass on their traits to the future generations

• have the smallest chance of reproducing

• have adaptations to help them survive

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When there are limited resources, there is __________ in a population.

• variation

• survival

• competition

• evolution

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What is most likely to happen to the moth population in the picture shown?

• dark moths population will increase

• the colors will be even in number

• light moths population will increase

• that individual light moth will change his color to match the dark moth

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A species could go extinct if:

• food becomes more plentiful

• members of the species have adaptations to enhance survival

• the environment changes drastically and no one can adapt

• there is less competition for resources

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