Natural Selection Peppered Moth

Why did the population of moths change

• Predators were able to easily see their prey.
• People hunted lighter colored moths
• White moths were killed by the smoke from the factories
• Moths mood changed to sad, causing them to become dark

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The term that best describes why the moth population changed color over time

• adaptation
• natural selection
• mutation
• predator-prey

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The source of all genetic material is...

• Protein
• cells
• DNA
• The brain

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Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Steven Hawking
• Albert Einstein
• Charles Darwin
• Isaac Newton

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

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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The phenomenon that refers to the evolution of dark body colors in animal species that live in habitats blackened by soot is known as

• industrial revolution

• industrial melanism

• pollution selection

• Kettlewellanism

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Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  
• become extinct
  

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If an organism can survive long enough to reproduce, it can pass on its good traits to its _____.

• offspring
• population
• natural selection
• species

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With the peppered moths, when the forest was light, there were more ____ colored moths. 

• light
• dark

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A symbiotic relationship between some fungi and at least one algae is called.....

• lichen

• hyphae

• mycorrhiza

• pupae