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| Because of Natural Selection the best adapted individuals... |
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| survive and reproduce, contributing the most children to the next generation. |
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| Offspring is another word for... |
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| Organisms usually produce many more ..... than the environment can support. |
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| Most natural populations ..... through time. |
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| remain approximately the same size |
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| ...... differences between organisms can be passed on to their offspring. |
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| Charles Darwin observed a variety of finches on the ..... Islands. |
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| Charles Darwin explained that the differences in beak shape among finches was the result of .... |
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| differences that existed between individuals in the species. |
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| The differences between individuals in a species is called.... |
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| Peppered Moths show variation in their coloring. Some are....and others are.... |
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| In the Peppered Moth population, some ..... moths must have been born and survived in the population even before the pollution occurred. |
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| Evolutionary changes increase the ability of a population of a species to ..... and ...... in a specific environment. |
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| It is not necessarily the biggest and strongest that survive in an environment. It is the best ..... to the environment that survive. |
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| If there is a pesticide used in an environment eventually an inspect species will become resistant to the pesticide. This is because ..... |
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| the insects that were already resistant survived and reproduced until the majority of the population was of the resistant strain. |
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| What was the purpose of the various beak adaptations in the finches found on the Galapagos Islands? |
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| to gather food in specific environments |
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| Any variation that can help an organism survive in its specific environment is called a(n).... |
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| When two or more organisms fight for the same resource such as food this is called.... |
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| The specific role or job an organism has in its environment is called its .... |
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| The idea of evolution was originated by.... |
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| Charles Darwin left on a 5 year voyage in 1831 on a British ship called .... |
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| ....Describes the process by which certain organisms survive to reproduce in the world. |
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| Why is it INCORRECT to say, "A deer stretched its legs while trying to run faster from a predator so its offspring will also have longer legs." |
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| Characteristics acquired during an organism's life are NOT passed on through genes. |
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| A population of black / dark moths which live among soot covered trees lives on long enough to reproduce while the population of light colored moths lives on the same leaves is often eaten before offspring are produced is an example of.... |
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| A structure that is similar to that of a structure in another species is called a .... structure. |
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| Which human structure in homologous to the wing of a bat? |
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| A nest of baby birds in which some are born with slightly different shading to their wings is an example of .... |
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| Variation within species is one of Darwin's pieces of evidence for .... |
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| It is more likely for .... structures to become fossilized |
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| Lucy was an ancient skeleton found that was shown to be bipedal. This means she walked on ... |
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| A structure that seems to have so purpose in an organism is called... |
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| A structure such as the appendix in a human which seems to have ......... is considered to be a vestigial structure. |
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