Amplify Natural Selection Chp2 Quiz

Beak strength in birds changed over time from weak to strong beaks. What is the adaptive trait?

• Weak Beak Trait

• Medium Beak Trait

• Strong Beak Trait

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Where do the genes that determine an individual's traits come from?

• An individual can be born with any genes, since genes are random.

• Individuals grow genes specific to their environment.

• Parents pass their genes down to their offspring.

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How do genes determine an individual's traits?

• Genes directly cause traits.

• Genes are random and don't lead to traits.

• Genes give organims the abiltiy to change their traits.

• Genes are instructions for making protein molecules and protein molecules determine traits.

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How can an individual be born with an adaptive trait?

• The parent had genes for the adaptive trait, which they passed down to the individual (offspring.)

• The individual can choose to have the adaptive trait at birth.

• The individual can choose to change to the adaptive trait when they want to.

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Claim: Ostrilopes with adaptive traits are more likely to reproduce than ostrilopes with non-adaptive traits. Did the class data support or refute this claim?

• Supports

• Refutes

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_______ are instructions for making protein molecules and protein molecules determine an organism's traits.

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Individuals inherit their genes from their _________. Genes, therefore traits, in a population are passed down from generation to generation.

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Alfred Russel Wallace spent many years studying plants and animals all over the world. He came up with the idea of natural selection at about the same time that Charles Darwin did.

• True

• False

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The poisons in mint are harmless to humans, but deadly to some plant-eating insects. These poisons are what give mint its minty taste and smell—they are warning signals telling insects to stay away.

• True

• False

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Scientists have found evidence that garter snakes use their senses of smell and taste to tell whether a rough-skinned newt is too poisonous to eat. They have even observed garter snakes doing quick “taste tests”—licking rough-skinned newts before deciding whether to eat them.

• True

• False