Vocabulary
Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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The process by which species cease to exist is
extinction
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What are the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock?
fossil
100
What is the vocabulary for "survival of the fittest"?
Natural Selection
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Molecular Sequence used to study how closely related two different species are.
DNA
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The dude that came up with the idea of evolution and natural selection.
Darwin
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Yellow beetle and green beetles live in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:
green population will increase and the yellow will decrease
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Does natural selection typically take a long time or a short time?
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time
200
Farmers and horticulturalists bred broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and cabbage from the wild mustard plant through
artificial selection
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What is a change in a gene that results in a new trait?
Mutation
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What is most likely to happen to moth populations in the picture shown?
Dark moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population decreases.
300
In an arctic environment, natural selection would act against: white foxes or red foxes?
red foxes
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A camel breeder wants to bred a camel that is good tempered and easy to handle. What traits should he focus on?
Lack of Aggression, No Biting/Kicking/Spitting
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A TRAIT that helps an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
adaptation
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What would happen if the environment changes drastically and no organisms have fitting adaptations?
species could go extinct
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After traveling to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin noticed a lot of variation among beak sizes in Finches. This variation was a result of:
Developing different adaptations in order to survive on particular islands
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Can an organism "CHOOSE" to evolve and change?
No, organisms CANNOT CHOOSE to change their genes or traits!
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In the context of natural selection, what is fitness?
ability to reproduce
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Those islands that Darwin visited?
Galapagos Islands
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Explain the difference between artificial and natural selection.
Artificial selection is done by humans and focuses on the traits that we find to be the most valuable to us. Natural selection is done by nature and is focused on the traits that would survive best in the environment.
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In what type of organism would we typically see evolution happen really quickly.
bacteria