Evolutionary Concepts Quiz

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace (correct)

Gregor Mendel and Thomas Hunt Morgan

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke

Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch

A sudden transformation of an organism's physical and biological environments

The creation of new species without any genetic variation

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

The extinction of certain characteristics within a population

Organisms do not vary in morphology, physiology, and behavior

Traits do not confer different rates of survival and reproduction

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

The environment remains constant over generations

<p>Different traits confer different rates of survival and reproduction (differential fitness)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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