Variation Species

The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution

• Nucleotide 

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

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Birds are the biggest predator in this environment. The black moths had a mutation that made many of them white. What will happen to this species?

• Most of the black moths will survive and the white ones will be eaten

• Most of the white moths will survive and the black ones will be eaten

• The moths will survive equally

• The moths will both equally be eaten by birds

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Who was the naturalist that traveled the world to study plants and animals?

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

• Charles Barkley

• Isaac Newton

Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  

• become extinct
  

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What theory proposes that organisms with traits better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce?

• Acquired Characteristics

• Embryology

• Survival of the Smartest

• Natural Selection

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In a certain species of plant, the color purple (P) is dominant to the color white (p).

According to the Punnett Square, what is the probability of an offspring being purple?

• 25%

• 0%

• 100%

• 50%

How do adaptations help animals?

• To escape animals

• to hunt for food

• to survive in their habitats

• All of these are correct

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To adjust to a changing environment

• Mutation

• Adapt

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Which of the following best describes the concept of variation within a species?

• Differences in physical traits among individuals of the same species

• The process by which species become extinct

• The migration of species from one habitat to another

• The development of new species from existing ones

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What is the primary source of genetic variation in a population?

• Mutations in DNA

• Cloning

• Environmental changes

• Selective breeding

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