Quiz 2.4: What Is Natural Selection?

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. According to _______'s theory of common ancestry, similar living species must all have had a common ancestor.

Lamarck correct incorrect

Plato correct incorrect

Darwin correct incorrect

Lyell correct incorrect

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. The theory of natural selection remains central to modern evolutionary theory more than 150 years after it was originally formulated by Charles Darwin.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Sometimes organisms change in ways that are useful to them without the changes being in response to natural selection. This process is known as ______.

adaptation correct incorrect

aptation correct incorrect

fitness correct incorrect

exaptation correct incorrect

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