Life Science Review

Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  
• become extinct
  

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Hawks and owls eat the same thing. That relationship is called ___________.

• adaptation
• competition
• parasitism
• mutualism

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What type of symbiosis?  Skunks often live in burrows that have been dug and abandoned by woodchucks.  

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

What is a change in an organism that allows for it to survive in its environment?

• homologous
• vestigial
• variation
• adaptation

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Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 
• dark

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What characteristic did Darwin observe about the finches on the Galapagos Islands?

• Their feathers 
• Their body sizes
• Their beaks

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T - tall and t = short
In the punnett square below, what belongs in the missing square

• tt
• Tt
• Bb
• TT

Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring? 

• Evolution 
• Variation 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection 

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The struggle for existence against other members of the same species is

• Competition
• Natural Selection
• extinction

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The gradual change in a species over time is called

• diversity
• evolution
• fossil record

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