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Name: ______________________________
Date: _____________________
Notes: Natural Selection and Adaptation
What process allows organisms with the best adaptions to reproduce and pass on their genes?
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What is true of environmental resources? ___________________________________________
Organisms that can acquire resources the best are most likely to do what two things?
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What makes an organism well adapted? _____________________________________________
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What do we call the different versions of a gene? _____________________________________
What process creates new alleles? _________________________________________________
Mutations are only passed to offspring when they occur where? _________________________
What does it mean for the frequency of an allele to increase in a population?
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What does natural selection change? _______________________________________________
What must a population do when it is faced with new conditions? ________________________
What happens to species that cannot adapt? _________________________________________
What allele was produced in peppered moths due to mutations? _________________________
At first, what happened to the black moths? _________________________________________
At first, which allele was the most beneficial? _________________________________________
What did the Industrial Revolution send into the environment? __________________________
After pollution killed the lichens, what allele was more beneficial? ________________________
How did the frequency of the black allele change over time? ____________________________
Did this change individual moths or the moth population? ______________________________
What makes a population more likely to adapt? _______________________________________
What happens to an insect population when it is treated with a pesticide?
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What do the alleles for resistance let insects do? ______________________________________
Over time, the _______________________ of this allele __________________________.
Do individuals change, or does the population change? _________________________________
What does it mean for a population to become resistant to a chemical?
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What can bacteria become resistant to? _____________________________________________