Natural Selection

An inheirted trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing in a particular environment. (a)  

• Variation
• Differentiation
• Adaptation
• Genetic Specialist

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The process by which organisms with variations that help them survive in their environment live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than those that do not have the variations. (a)  

• Evolution
• Creationism
• Natural Selection
• Mutation

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What genetic change allows organisms to survive natural selection in their environments?  (a)  

• learned behavior
• acquired traits
• analogies
• adaptations

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Who was the naturalist that traveled the world to study plants and animals?

• Albert Einstein
• Charles Darwin
• Charles Barkley
• Isaac Newton

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

• Evolution 
• Variation 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection 

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The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

• Genes

• Variations

• Traits

• Theories

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Natural selection

• Happens in nature without human involvement

• Humans control the process to obtain desirable traits

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Change over time

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

• Mutation

• Heredity

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Natural Selection is driven by a change in the environment and survival of the

• Smartest

• Fastest

• Most well adapted

• Biggest

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

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  Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.

• Because they have mutations

• Because they are better

• Because it says so

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