Evolution Intro

Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement: 
variations within populations

• Darwin 

• Lamarck

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Which organisms are most likely to survive?

• the best adapted

• the fastest

• the strongest

• the most domesticated (tamed)

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How do you "win" at natural selection?

• survive

• go extinct

• survive & reproduce

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Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement: 
use or disuse

• Darwin 

• Lamarck

What makes an organism more "fit" than other organisms in its population?

• It can survive to produce more offspring than others

• It is bigger than the others

• It is able to mate more than others

• It is able to find more food than others

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What process is being shown in this image?

• Variation

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

• Homeostasis

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Sometimes referred to as "survival of the fittest," this process allows those traits which are most favorable to be passed on to the next generation and those which are not to be eliminated.

• genetic drift

• gene flow

• natural selection

• mutation

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Who proposed that natural selection is the mechanism of evolution?

• James Hutton

• Charles Lyell

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Darwin

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The slight differences amongst a species, like different shaped bird beaks, are called

• genes.

• variations.

• traits.

• theories.

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A flamingo's beak is an example of ____________________because it allows it to better survive in its envronment

• an adaptation

• a mutation

• inbreeding

• a genetic disease

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