Evidence for Evolution Practice and Darwin vs Lamarck

_________ is the fact that organisms change over time and are related through common ancestors. 

• Theory of Natural Selection
• Theory of Need
• Theory of Use and Disuse
• Theory of Evolution

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_______ believed that organisms develop traits needed for survival and that traits that were unused would become weaker and gradually disappear. 

• Darwin
• Lamarck
• Mendel
• Watson

____________ believed that those organisms that were best suited for their environment would survive and pass on their beneficial traits to their offspring. 

• Darwin
• Lamarck
• Watson
• Mendel

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Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement: 
survival of the fittest

• Darwin 
• Lamarck

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Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement: 
use or disuse

• Darwin 
• Lamarck

The process in which organism with variations most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring.

• Natural Selection
• Survival of the Fittest
• Common Descent
• Phenotype

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What do we call differences among heritable traits?

• Variation
• Adaptation
• Evolution
• Speciation

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What do we call change over time?

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Natural Variation
• Speciation

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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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Charles Darwin called the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment 

• diversity.
• evolution
• adaptation. 
•  fitness.

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