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Evolution and Natural Selection
How do you "win" at natural selection?
How does evolution occur?
Evolution and Natural Selection
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How
does evolution occur?
Natural selection
Photosynthesis
It's random
It does not happen
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How do you "win" at natural selection?
find food to eat
go extinct
get eaten by predators
survive and reproduce
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Vestigial Structures...
similar structure, different function
similar structure, similar function
no function in the body.
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homologous structure
metaphor
no function
similar structure, similar function
similar structure, but different function
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Some people like big dogs. Some people like small dogs. There are so many different types of dogs because of ___.
Artificial Selection
Natural Selection
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This picture is showing which vocabulary word?
Variation
Decent with modification
Overproduction of offspring
Adaptation
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Which of these are evidence for evolution?
Height
Fossils
Intelligence
Hair color
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An adaptation is....
Becoming better at surviving in an environment.
Trying to get used to something.
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What is natural selection?
Common ancestors
Humans pick the characteristics they like to have in animals
Animals change and adapt to to survive and reproduce
Populations
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Evolution is always happening
TRUE
FALSE
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"All animals in Alexandria" is an example of a population.
True
False
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Over time, giraffe necks grew longer so they could reach food. This is an example of ______?
Artificial Selection
Descent with Modification
Variation
Natural Selection
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What is evolution?
fast change in a species
changing all animals in an area
change in a species over a long time
species staying the same
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Which is an example of a population?
all animals in Alexandria
all brown rabbits in a forest
the rocks in a yard
the trees and grass in a park
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In natural selection, humans choose the characteristics passed down to offspring.
true
false
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Darwin's studied which organisms:
moths
jaguars
birds
fossils
