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True or False
Evolution
Artificial Selection
100
What is Naturalist
A person who studies plants and animals
100
True or False Charles Darwin is an English Naturalist.
True
100
A person who studies plants and animals by observing them is a
Naturalist
100

The process through which humans breed other animals and plants for particular traits

Artificial Selection

200

What is adaptation

the evolutionary process and result by which a species becomes better suited to its environment over generations through natural selection

200

A generation is organisms of the same species at the same level of descent from a common ancestor.

True

200
Through, populations of organisms adapt to their enviroments
Natural Selection
200

Basic unit of heredity made of DNA

Genes

300

what is natural selection

theory that organisms with traits that are well suited to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully

300

A population is 2 or more members of the same species living in a habitat

True

300

Natural Selection leads to the predominance of certain traits in a population and the _______________ of other traits.

suppression 

300

In artificial selection, the favorable traits to be pass on to the next __________ are chosen by the breeder

generation

400
what is variation
a slight difference in an inhabited trait of members of species
400

Natural selection occurs over a very short period of time

False

400
Occur when a beneficial variation is intended by all members of a population
Adaptation
400

A form of artificial Selection

Selective Breeding

500
What is camoflage
an adaptation that enables a species to blend with its enviroment
500

Issac Newton wrote " On the Origin of Species".

False

500

Inherited traits that provide an advantage also make that organism more likely to _____________, thereby passing on the desirable trait. 

reproduce

500

What is one example of how plants adapt to persistent drought? 

Answer could be: early-flowering