Principles of Natural Selection

The process of biological change in a population over time is called...

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Creationism

• Intelligent Design

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Which type of evolution affects many populations?

• Microevolution

• Macroevolution

• Gene Flow

• Genetic Drift

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Who was the first person to organize life on a scale of increasing complexity?

• Aristotle

• Carl Linneaus

• Charles Darwin

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

What is taxonomy?

• Classifying organisms based on their age

• Classifying organisms based on their anatomy

• Classifying organisms based on their size

• Classifying organisms based on their diet

Who believed that competition for resources would create a "struggle for existence"?

• Thomas Malthus

• Georges Cuvier

• James Hutton

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

The idea that the same processes that have happened in the past are happening now and will continue to happen in the future is called...

• Uniformitarianism

• Gradualism

• Natural Selection

• Catastrophism

Why were Lamarck's ideas on evolution incomplete? (Select ALL that apply)

• Individuals don't evolve, populations do

• Adaptation is caused by random mutation

• Only the fittest species will survive and reproduce

• Species have a tendency towards perfection

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How are Intelligent Design and Creationism similar?

• Both believe the Earth is 6,000 years old

• Both believe that God created all living things

• Both believe that species do not change over time

• Both believe in evolutionary theory

Natural Selection states that...

• Genetic mutation is random

• Organisms will change to adapt to their environment

• The best adapted organisms will live longer and reproduce more than others

• Organisms are naturally selected by God to reproduce

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Survival of the Fittest states that...

• Only the strongest organisms will survive

• Only the fastest organisms will survive

• Only the largest organisms will survive

• Only the best adapted organisms will survive

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