Darwin's Journey and Natural Selection

A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce

• Adaptation

• Variation

• Allele

• Species

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The theory of natural selection was introduced by

• Gregor Mendel

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Charles Darwin

• Copernicus

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What is the theory of natural selection?

• The practice by which humans select plants or animals for breeding based on desired traits.

• An inherited trait that helps an organism to survive.

• Differences in traits

• individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce

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What organism did Darwin study at the Galapagos Island?

• Dogs

• Dragons

• Finches

• Tigers

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Charles Darwin proposed that new species come from preexisting species by the process of ______________ _______________.

• evolution

• adaptations

• natural selection

• homologous structures

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Match the following terms with their definitions.

• The human practice of breeding animals or plants that have certain desired traits.

• artificial selection

• The change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

• acquired characteristics

• Traits that an organism develops during its lifetime and are not passed on to offspring.

• evolution

• The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

• natural selection

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Match the following

change/time=change over time

pos=positive

w/=with

envi=environment

• Process of how species change/time

• Natural Selection

• Best for envi survive and reproduce

• Survival of the Fittest

• Individuals w/pos traits increase/time

• Evolution

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Who is known as the father of the theory of evolution by natural selection?

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wallace

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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​ (a)   was a naturist, who studied​ (b)   on the Galapogos island.

• Charles Darwin

• plants and animals

• Robert hooke

• Watson and Crick

• airplanes

• HMS Beagel

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The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called _______

• Variation

• Inheritance

• competition

• Genes

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