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What is artificial selection?
a) Selective breeding of organisms selected for certain traits to produce offspring with those traits
b) theory of evolution based on four ideas; excess reproduction, variations, inheritance, and advantages
c) scientific study of all relationships between organisms and environment
d) method used to determine age of rocks

What is natural selection?
a) theory of evolution based on four ideas; excess reproduction, variations, inheritance, and advantages
b) Selective breeding of organisms selected for certain traits to produce offspring with those traits
c) any preserved evidence of an organism
d) scientist who studies fossils

What is reproduction?
a) production of offspring
b) organisms reaction to a stimulus
c) guides protein synthesis
d) scientist who studies life

Which is an example of variation?
a) some sunflowers are taller than others
b) all sunflowers are tall
c) all sunflowers are short
d)

Which describes variation?
a) When individuals in a population differ from another
b) variations are inherited from parents
c) the amount a population reproduces
d)

What is overproduction?
a) populations produce more offspring than can survive
b) individuals in a population differ from one another
c) variations are inherited from parents
d)

What could be viewed as a reproductive advantage?
a) shorter sunflowers reproduce more successfully
b) taller sunflowers produce less seeds
c) taller sunflowers are pollinated less
d)

What is reproductive advantage?
a) variations that allow the organism to have more offspring than the organism that does not possess them
b) populations produce more offspring than can survive
c) variations are inherited from parents
d)

Which example supports the fact that variations are inherited?
a) You look similar to your parents.
b) You are a clone of your parents.
c) Everyone in class looks exactly the same
d)

What is evolution?
a) hereditary changes in groups of living organisms over time
b) procedure performed in a controlled setting to test hypothesis
c) Selective breeding of organisms selected for certain traits to produce offspring with those traits
d) theory of evolution based on four ideas; excess reproduction, variations, inheritance, and advantages

The theory of evolution states that all organisms alive today evolved from earlier organisms called ancestors.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Cat breeds we have today were developed through
a) artificial selection
b) natural selection
c) sexual selection
d) selection

The theory of evolution by natural selection was independently developed by
a) Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace
b) Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin
c) Erasmus Darwin and Lamarack
d) Charles Lyell and James Hutton

What was the purpose of the Beagle expedition?
a) to map the harbors and coastlines of South America
b) to break record time for circumnavigating the globe
c) to establish a colony on the Galapagos Islands
d) to find gold in South America

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