To be Random or not to be Random
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Fight Night: Adaptation vs. Evolution
"I Can't Believe it's Not Butter!" Artificial vs. Natural Selection
It's Anybody's Guess
100
A non-random process that selects traits that benefit an organism's survival and reproduction.
A. What is Natural Selection?
B. What is Mutation?
C. What is Artificial Selection?
A. What is Natural Selection?
100
Margaret can bench press 150 pounds. In evolutionary terms, Margaret has high _______.
A. Fitness
B. Strength
C. Stamina
B. What is Strength?
100
Short term changes to better suit a change in the environment is ________.
A. What is Natural Selection?
B. What is Evolution?
C. What is Adaptation?
C. What is Adaptation?
100
A process that makes organisms better suited to their current environment, and has no regard for the future. It is not goal-oriented. A. What is Artificial Selection? B. What is Directional Selection? C. What is Natural Selection?
C. What is Natural Selection?
100
There is genetic ___________ within a population that can be inherited.
What is variation?
200
A random event that may or may not affect an organism's ability to reproduce.
A. What is Natural Selection?
B. What is Mutation?
C. What is Artificial Selection?
B. What is Mutation?
200
The fitness of a given phenotype is dependant on the _______.
A. Strength of the Individual?
B. Survival Skills of the Individual?
C. Environment?
C. What is Environment?
200
A long term, cumulative change in genetic sequence that allows for the species to survive and reproduce more effectively is _________.
A. What is Adaptation?
B. What is Evolution?
C. What is Genetic Variation?
C. What is Evolution?
200
A goal-driven process that selects for traits regardless of fitness that favours phenotypic preferences.
A. What is Artificial Selection?
B. What is Natural Selection?
C. What is Directional Selection?
A. What is Artificial Selection?
200
TRUE or FALSE? Overproduction of offspring leads to competition for survival.
What is TRUE?
300
A three-eyed fish produces more offspring than a fish with two eyes in murky water.
A. What is Mutation?
B. What is Natural Selection?
C. What is Sexual Selection?
B. What is Natural Selection?
300
A cane toad grows longer legs due to a random mutation. This allows the individual to mate with a wider range of females, varying in size. Is this ______.
A. What is Physical Fitness?
B. What is Mental Fitness?
C. What is Evolutionary Fitness?
C. What is Evolutionary Fitness?
300
Two finch populations in site A and site B from a common ancestor. They have different beak sizes that are suited to the specific environment. This is an example of _______.
A. What is Evolution?
B. What is Adaptation?
C. What is Random Mutation?
A. What is Evolution?
300
Selecting for ear size in puppies is an example of this process. A. What is Natural Selection? B. What is Artificial Selection? C. What is Cosmetic Surgery?
B. What is Artificial Selection?
300
A random change in an organism's genes.
What is a mutation?
400
An event occurs that makes a fish slightly better camouflaged within its environment. This is an example of _____.
A. What is an example of Natural Selection?
B. What is an example of Gene Flow?
C. What is an example of Mutation?
C. What is an example of Mutation?
400
_____ is measured by an individual's reproductive success. Even if an organism has a shorter life span than another, if it manages to reproduce more offspring and reproduce more often in it's lifetime, it is considered to have a higher _____. Only heritable traits can be considered.
A. What is Evolutionary Fitness
B. What is Reproductive Success?
C. What is Adaptation?
A. What is Evolutionary Fitness?
400
A flood causes a bird's food source to be depleted. The birds with slightly larger beaks are able to seek out a new food source, and survive to reproduce. This is an example of ______.
A. What is Evolution?
B. What is Adaptation?
C. What is Diverging Selection?
B. What is Adaptation?
400
A process that is predictable over a short period of time.
A. What is Natural Selection?
B. What is Genetic Drift?
C. What is Artificial Selection?
A. What is Natural Selection?
400
What is the yellow banded snails were less visible to predators?
500
Natural selection is _____ process?
A. What is Random?
B. What is Goal-Oriented?
C. What is Non-Random?
C. What is Non-Random?
500
Male peacocks exhaust a lot of energy into the development of their tail which allows them to better attract a mate. This mechanism places a burden on the individual's ability to survive after reproduction. This has a ______ affect on the fitness of the male.
A. Increased
B. Neutral
C. Negative
A. What is Increased?
500
A population of Bacterium gergoriosum is exposed to a brand of antibiotics. Much of the population is wiped out, but in a few days, returns to its original size. This is an example of _________. A. What is Individual Resistance? B. What is Genetic Resistance? C. What is Evolution of the Species Over Generations?
C. What is Evolution of the Species Over Generations?
500
A process that is unable to keep traits just because they may serve a purpose in future environments.
A. What is Artificial Selection?
B. What is Diversifying Selection?
C. What is Natural Selection?
C. What is Natural Selection?
500
Process in which numerous new species evolve to fill vacant and new ecological niches in changed environments.
What is adaptive radiation?