Chapter 12.2 review PP 2

Question 1

The physical or behavioral traits of organisms that lead to increased survival or reproduction become more common in a population.

Answer 1

Theory of Natural Selection

Question 2

What explains how organisms evolved from a common ancestor?

Answer 2

Theory of Natural Selection

Question 3

Most important cause of evolution is the?

Answer 3

Theory of Natural Selection

Question 4

Relative survival and reproduction of one variant

Answer 4

Fitness

Question 5

Traits that increase individual fitness in an environment

Answer 5

Adaptation

Question 6

Individuals with adaptations for a particular environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Natural selection causes evolution

Answer 7

Darwins inference

Question 8

Favorable inherited variations tend to increase in frequency is a result of what?

Answer 8

natural selection

Question 9

Unfavorable variations tend to be lost

Answer 9

Result of natural selection

Question 10

A change in the traits of individuals in a population over generations

Answer 10

Evolution

Question 11

Methods to test natural selection as a mechanism for evolutionary change

Answer 11

Testing natural selection

Question 12

1. Artificial selection
2. Natural selection in the lab
3. Natural selection in wild populations
   These are all examples of what?

Answer 12

Testing natural selection

Question 13

selection imposed by human choice

Answer 13

artificial selection

Question 14

Fancy pigeons studied by Darwin is an example of

Answer 14

artificial selection

Question 15

Breeds od dogs

Answer 15

artificial selection