Natural Selection Review
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Science
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8th Grade
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Easy
Kevan Velazquez
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1.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
What is a population?
Back
A population is a group of the same kinds of organisms living in an area
2.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
What are traits?
Back
specific characteristics an individual has
3.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
Within a population, do all individuals have the same traits?
Back
False
4.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
Natural selection is NOT which of the following?
- One of processes through which evolution occurs
- When the environment favors certain traits over others
- Nature “selects” which organisms survive and which do not, the organisms best adapted to their environments will survive and those that are not or can not adapt will not survive
- A process that leads to new resources in nature
Back
A process that leads to new resources in nature
5.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
What are the two kinds of traits we can have?
Back
adaptive and non adaptive
6.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
What is a mutation?
Back
A random change in the DNA sequence of a gene
7.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
How do new traits arise in a population?
Back
By mutations
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