Biology Evolution

What most likely caused the finches on the Galapagos Islands to have beaks that were differnt from the finches living on the South American mainland?

• They were different types of food available on the island.

• The finches on the islands had to drink salt water.

• There were different types of predators living on the island.

• The finches on the mainland built different types of nests.

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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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Which BEST helps a population from going extinct?

• low mutation rate

• small population

• genetic variation

• similar physical features

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

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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Natural selection is when ____________ decides who survives and who doesn't

• nature

• humans

• animals

• years

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Where humans have bred organisms together based on traits we like.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction 

• Artificial Selection

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The difference in the physical traits of an individual from those of other individuals in a group is called a(n)

• change

• adaption

• species

• variation

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An error in DNA copying that results in a new trait

• Homeostasis

• Mutation

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

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Darwin's ship was called ________

• HMS Bugle

• HMS Beetle

• HMS Asparagus

• HMS Beagle

This is an inherited trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

• Evolution

• Population

• Environment

• Adaptation

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