Evolution Vocab Review

What is an example of artificial selection?

• Letting dogs choose their own mate

• Letting plants pollinate on their own

• Crossing a labrador and a poodle to create a labradoodle

Which statement is true comparing natural selection and artificial selection?

• In natural selection, traits benefit humans and in artificial selection, the traits benefit the species

• In natural selection, traits benefit the species and in artificial selection, the traits benefit humans

• In natural and artificial selection, the process takes hundreds of years to occur

• In natural and artificial selection, nature determines what traits will be passed down to offspring.

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Artificial selection is also known as

• natural selection

• selective hearing

• genetic manipulation

• selective breeding

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When nature selects and species with beneficial adaptation survive and produce offspring

• natural selection

• artificial selection

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Who is the father of evolution?

• Darwin

• Mendel

• Newton

• Einstein

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The process that populations gradually change over time.

• extinction

• selective breeding

• evolution

• mutation

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The process where organisms that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce over organisms that aren't adapted to their environment

• adaptation

• extinction

• fossil

• natural selection

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The naturally occurring differences between organisms

• mutation

• genetic variation

• natural selection

• selective breeding

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The chronological order of fossils that is used to tell how organisms change over time

• fossil

• evolution

• fossil record

• extinction

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Evolution

• A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area

• A physical feature of an organism's body having a specific function that contributes to the survival of the organism

• Change in a kind of organism over time; a process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms

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