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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

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