Adaptation & Natural Selection

A group of the same type of organism living in the same area

• population

• species

• organism

• predator

Over many generations, individuals with _______________ become more common in

a population, while individuals with _________________ become less common.

• adaptive traits ; non-adaptive traits

• non-adaptive traits ; adaptive traits

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Whether or not a trait is adaptive depends on the _______________________.

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An organism's genetic information

• genotype

• phenotype

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An organism's observable physical traits

• genotype

• phenotype

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Individuals _______ their genes from their parents.

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Individuals with _______________________ are more likely to live longer and have offspring.

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What is an adaptive trait?

• a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

• an instruction for making a protein molecule

• a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment

• the number of individuals with each trait in a population

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Organisms better adapted to the environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than organisms who aren’t adapted to the environment.

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Mutations

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Who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection?

• Darwin

• Hess

• Einstein

• Hawkings

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