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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Laws of Variation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fate of traits that are neither helpful nor unhelpful for survival?
(a) The are bred out of the species.
(b) They are not subject to natural selection.
(c) They are subject to artificial selection.
(d) They are subject to natural selection.

2. What classification has a large number of species?
(a) Genera.
(b) Organism.
(c) Flora.
(d) Colony.

3. What do most organisms have a very good ability to do?
(a) Alter their biological makeup.
(b) Reproduce.
(c) Adapt.
(d) Migrate.

4. Why would one organism be able to survive in a climate that another could not?
(a) It has thicker skin.
(b) It is maladapted.
(c) It has more fur.
(d) It is better adapted.

5. Which of the following tends to live over larger areas?
(a) Species.
(b) Mammals.
(c) Subspecies.
(d) Variations.

Short Answer Questions

1. As an example of a variation, what does Darwin indicate in Chapter 1 that is a change due to improved diet?

2. What do species survive to do?

3. What results as a climate becomes more hostile?

4. What is the best example of traits that continue to vary?

5. What tends to occur in large groups of genera?

(see the answer key)

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