Natural Selection and Evolution Vocabulary

Which term describes a natural process where organisms with traits that help them survive and reproduce pass those traits to their offspring?

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Common Ancestry

• Selective Breeding

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What is the process where living things slowly change over many generations?

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Biogeography

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What is a change in a living thing that makes it better suited to its environment?

• Variation

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Homologous Structures

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What are similar body parts found in different species, showing they share a common ancestor?

• Characteristics

• Homologous Structures

• Genes

• Favorable Traits

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​ (a)   is the process of traits that are beneficial getting passed down to offspring, which leads to ​ (b)   over time.

• Natural selection

• evolution

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Which of the following best describes natural selection?

• Random changes in DNA

• Survival of the fittest

• Inheritance of acquired traits

• Sudden appearance of new species

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Process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called natural selection.

• Survival of the Fittest

• Extinction

• Derived trait

• Artificial Selection

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What is Natural Selection?

• Cannot be classified as animal, plant, or fungus.

• Organisms engineered to contain foreign DNA.

• The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive.

• A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals.

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Which of the following is a key component of natural selection?

• All individuals survive and reproduce equally

• Variation in traits among individuals

• No competition for resources

• Traits acquired during life are passed on

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Which of the following is the correct definition of natural selection?

• Organisms less adapted for their environment tend to survive

• Organisms that are best suited for their environment tend to survive and have more offspring

• Organisms best adapted for their environment tend to go extinct

• The cutest survive

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