Natural Selection Lamarck, Darwin

What is the gradual development of a species into a new one to survive?

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artificial Selection

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Lamarck thought that the differences in traits of organisms are a result of

• increases in population size.
• the actions of organisms as they change a body structure. 
• an unchanging local environment.
• the natural variations already present within the population of organisms.

Whose theory included "acquired traits" such as a giraffe needing a long neck so they stretch it over time?

• Darwin

• Lamarck

• Wallace

This salamander did not use its eyes so it lost its vision. Whose theory said if you don't use it, you lose it?

• Darwin

• Lamarck

• Wallace

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What is the process in which organism with variations most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring?

• Natural Selection

• Acquired Traits

• Phenotype

• Genotype

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What is survival of the fittest?

• It is where the fittest die out and therefore reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest die out and therefore can't reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest don't die out and therefore can't reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest don't die out and therefore reproduce and pass on their genes

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Which scientist's theory would include

"variations within populations"? (choose all that apply)

• Darwin

• Lamarck

• Wallace

• Lyell

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Which scientist's theory would include

"use or disuse".

• Darwin

• Lamarck

• Wallace

Which scientist's theory would include

"organisms change due to need or want"?

• Darwin

• Lamarck

• Wallace

How do Darwin's ideas help us today?

• they help us understand how disease change over time.
• they give us clues to Earth's biological past.
• They help us understand relationships between living things and the natural world.
• All of the above

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