Evolution in Populations

How do you "win" at natural selection?

• survive

• go extinct

• survive & reproduce

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Change over time

• Natural Selection

• Selective Breeding

• Homeostasis

• Evolution

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A yellow morph and green morph of an insect lives in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:

• the green population to increase and the yellow to decrease

• both populations should stay the same

• both populations will increase

• the green population to decrease and the yellow to increaseThis is a wrong answer

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Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin

• Albert Einstein

• Steven Hawking

• Isaac Newton

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What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

• natural selection

• mutation

• camouflage

• adaptation

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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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Natural Selection is driven by a change in the environment and survival of the

• Earth

• Fastest

• Fittest

• Biggest

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Dogs such as Chihuahuas are examples of....

• Artificial Selection 

• Natural Selection 

• Mutations 

Charles Darwin came up with this theory 

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

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

• increase in number
  

• become extinct
  

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