Natural Selection

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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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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Do organisms "decide" to evolve and change?

• Yes, they know they need to change to survive 
• No, they change because of natural selection

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Almost all adaptations started off as?

• selective breeding
• physiological
• structural
• mutation

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

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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If a new trait DOES help an organism survive, what may happen to it?

• It dies and its DNA is not passed on

• It survives and its DNA is passed on

• It changes its traits to adapt and survive

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If a new trait DOES NOT help an organism survive, what may happen to it?

• It dies and its DNA is not passed on

• It survives and its DNA is passed on

• It changes its traits to adapt and survive

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What happens to new traits that HELP organisms survive over time?

• They become MORE COMMON

• They become LESS COMMON

• They are EQUALLY COMMON

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Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA

• tRNA

• protein

• rRNA

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

• genes.
• variations.
• traits.
• theories.

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