Natural Selection

A fox with thicker fur than average would have a survival advantage over other foxes if:

• There is more competition for food in the fox population.

• The air temperature significantly decreases in winter.

• A drought occurs, limiting the amount of water available.

• A new disease appears that infects the foxes.

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Which of the following statements describes the process of natural selection?

• Individuals with beneficial inherited traits survive to reproduce.

• New species are formed via genetic engineering.

• Populations sharing the same gene pool interbreed and create new species.

• Farmers select animals with desirable variations for breeding.

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Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring? 

• Evolution 

• Variation 

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection 

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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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what did Charles Darwin observe in finch populations of the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South America?

• different species on different islands

• all species on one of the islands

• identical species on all the islands

• the same species as North America

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Gradualism means Natural Selection would normally happen over many generations and very

• slowly

• quickly

• in space

• beyond time

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Punctuated Equilibrium implies catastrophic events caused natural selection to speed up due to great environmental changes.

• True

• False

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what gave Charles Darwin the idea of evolution?

• google

• wikipedia

• mans attempt to destroy mankind

• finches in the Galapagos island

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What is the definition of Natural Selection?

• Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success

• Traits can be determined by genes, environmental factors or by a combination of both

• the effect of environmental factors on the expression of the genetic potentials

• the time between when an organism comes into being and when it reproduces

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The process where organisms with favorable adaptations are most likely to survive is called __

• Natural selection

• Speciation

• Change over time

• Evolution

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