Class Activity II-MW9

The naturalist who came out with the evolution by natural selection mechanism:

• Nisreen Alwan

• Charles Darwin

• Darwin Darwin

Natural Selection is the process of the

• fittest individuals passing their traits to the next generation more successfully.

• weakest individuals passing their traits to the next generation more successfully.

• fittest individuals not passing their traits to the next generation more successfully.

   

Natural selection

• does not change species.

• modifies species.

• is acclimation.

__________ species are a type of organisms that signal the health, or lack of health, of environmental conditions.

• Exotic

• Endemic

• Indicator

__________ describes both the role played by a species in a biological community and the set of environmental factors that determine its distribution.

• Habitat

• Ecological niche

• Area

The shift towards one extreme of a trait is known as __________ selection.

• stabilizing

• disruptional

• directional

The science of naming, describing, and classifying organisms is referred to as:

• Taxonomy

• Systematics

• Biology

The first name in Capoeta damascina refers to the ________.

• genus

    

• species epithet

• family

Leopards and lions compete for the same food resources and the presence of one can impact the presence of the other. This is an example of ___________ competition.

• intraspecific

• medium

• interspecific

Mutualism is a type of __________.

• commensalism

• symbiosis

• parasitism