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According to natural selection, light colored tree trunks would favor

• light colored moths

• dark colored moths

• red colored moths

• red and light colored moths

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What would happen if the Giraffes never evolve?

• they would survive

• They would thrive

• They would become extinct

• They will find another source of food

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What is this an example of?

• Homologous structure

• Analogous structure

• Vestigial organs

• Functional adaption

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Humans breed dogs for certain traits. What is this practice called?

• variation

• adaptation

• natural selection

• artificial selection

The natural differences between individuals of a species are referred to as

• survival of the fittest

• variation

• adaptation

• natural selection

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What process is being shown in this image?

• Variation

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

• Homeostasis

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Which of the following explains adaptation.

• An individual organism changes to meet its needs in the environment. These changes pass down to their offspring.

• The species as a whole changes their characteristics.

• Beneficial traits allow organism to survive and pass on those traits

• New characteristics arise in a species as needed.  If these traits are helpful, they are passed down.

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A large herd of goats lives in a field full of poison ivy.  Some goats are able to eat the poison ivy while others have become sick when they eat it. Over time the herd as a whole will tend to

• Become more likely to eat poison ivy.

• Become less likely to eat poison ivy.

• Not change in the proportion of goats that can and can not eat poison ivy.

• Eat all the poison ivy and leave only plants all the goats can eat.

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Which best explains the relationship between evolution and natural selection?

• Evolution causes natural selection.

• Evolution prevents natural selection.

• Natural selection prevents evolution.

• Natural selection is one aspect of evolution.

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Which best describes an inherited trait that gives an organism a survival advantage in its particular environment?

• an adaptation

• an offspring

• a mutation

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