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Evolution and Biodiversity

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What is evolution?

The change in heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations (correct)

The change in characteristics due to environmental changes

The change in characteristics due to individual choices

The change in non-heritable characteristics of biological populations

Who conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection?

Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin

Alfred Russel Wallace and Gregor Mendel

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace (correct)

What are the observable facts about living organisms that establish evolution by natural selection?

All traits confer the same rates of survival and reproduction

Traits do not vary among individuals

All offspring survive to adulthood

More offspring are often produced than can possibly survive (correct)

What results in certain characteristics becoming more or less common within a population over successive generations?

<p>Evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has given rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation?

<p>The process of evolution</p> Signup and view all the answers

Evolution and Biodiversity

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Questions and Answers

What is evolution?

Who conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection?

What are the observable facts about living organisms that establish evolution by natural selection?

What results in certain characteristics becoming more or less common within a population over successive generations?

What has given rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation?

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