Natural Selection STMS

Title of the book where Charles Darwin published his theory

• The Origin

• Natural Selection

• Survival of Fittest

• The Origin of Species

A process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the same species

• Natural Death

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Evolution

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What are the 3 factors that affect the process of natural selection?

• Underproduction

• Variation

• Overproduction

• Competition

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Darwin knew that most species produce more offspring than can possibly survive.

• Underproduction

• Overproduction

• Competition

• Cooperation

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Members of a population differ from one another in many of their traits. This factor refers to...

• Competition

• Similarities

• Variation

• Overproduction

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Variations (difference in traits) in a population are hereditary and passed from parents to offspring through genetic material (genes in the chromosomes).

• True

• False

• Maybe

• Sometimes

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Which factor refers to the struggle among living things to get the necessary amount of food, water and shelter?

• Competition

• Predation

• Variation

• Selection

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Darwin realized that some individuals have traits that help them to survive and _______

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If helpful traits are hereditary, individuals can pass these on to the next generation. Gradually, over many generations, more and more individuals will have the __________ traits.

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Darwin proposed that, over a long time, natural selection can lead to change. Helpful _______ may accumulate in a population, while unfavorable ones may disappear.

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