Evolution Review

What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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The trees these moths used to live on were white, but have been covered in soot from coal factories. Which moth will be more successful in this environment?

• Dark moth
• Light moth
• Both will be equally successful
• Neither will be successful

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These moths are all the same species. The differences between their wings is an example of ________________

• Natural Selection
• Variation
• Homeostasis
• Extinction

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Which of the following explains adaptation.

• An individual organism changes to meet its needs in the environment. These changes pass down to their offspring.
• The species as a whole changes their characteristics.
• Beneficial traits allow organism to survive and pass on those traits
• New characteristics arise in a species as needed.  If these traits are helpful, they are passed down.

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Identify this feature of a cladogram

• node

• root

• species

• branch

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When to species share a trait due to them both evolving in the same environment, that trait is considered a(n)

• homologous structure

• analogous structure

• vestigial structure

• new mutation

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Natural selection and Artificial selection refer to the same process.

• True

• False

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Selection pressures are biotic and abiotic factors in the environment that

• cause new mutations to form

• improve an organism's fitness

• affect an organism's fitness

• prevent natural selection

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The process of how new species are formed is called

• evolution

• natural selection

• adaptation

• speciation

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Individuals undergo evolution.

• True

• False

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