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Individuals with a certain trait are more successful at reproducing than others.
a) reproductive advantage
b) cladogram
c) relative dating
d) mutation

A characteristic that is passed from parents to offspring.
a) evolution
b) variation
c) heritable
d) speciation

A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area.
a) gene pool
b) differential reproduction
c) speciation
d) population

Any change in the specific order of nitrogen bases in DNA.
a) heritable
b) mutation
c) variation
d) speciation

The process in which new species is formed.
a) speciation
b) population
c) mutation
d) reproductive advantage

Survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotypes that make them better adapted to the environment.
a) survival of the fittest
b) variation
c) speciation
d) heritable

Differences in a certain trait between individual organisms of a species.
a) reproductive advantage
b) variation
c) allele frequency
d) heritable

The process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
a) mutation
b) variation
c) natural selection
d) reproductive advantage

A group of genetically similar organisms that can reproduce naturally with one another and create fertile offspring.
a) gene pool
b) species
c) selective pressure
d) evolution

The change in the characteristics of a population over several generations
a) evolution
b) speciation
c) mutation
d) selective pressure

A diagram that shows evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms.
a) cladogram
b) relative dating
c) radiometric dating
d) geen pool

The science of determining the relative order of past events and estimates of time based on the position within rock layers, without necessarily determining their absolute age.
a) pedigree
b) radioactive dating
c) radiometric dating
d) relative dating

Radioactive dating is a technique used to calculate an age in years for geologic materials (rocks and fossils) by measuring the presence of a short-life radioactive element.
a) relative dating
b) radiometric dating
c) law of superposition
d) cladogram

The relative frequency of an allele (variation of a gene) in a particular population.
a) allele frequency
b) gene pool
c) variation
d) reproductive advantage

The gene pool is the genetic diversity that exists within a population.
a) allele frequency
b) gene pool
c) variation
d) reproductive advantage

British naturalist who proposed the theory of biological evolution by natural selection.
a) Robert Hooke
b) Watson and Crick
c) Gregor Mendel
d) Charles Darwin

The external agents which affect an organism's ability to survive in a given environment.
a) selective pressure
b) differential reproduction
c) struggle to survive
d) mutagen

A group of genetically similar organisms that can reproduce naturally with one another and create fertile offspring.
a) reproductive advantage
b) differential reproduction
c) gene pool
d) species

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