Question 1
What process causes helpful inherited traits to become more common in a population over generations?
- Natural selection
- Cell division
- Fermentation
- Photosynthesis
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Natural selection
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Evolution trivia quiz
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What the Evolution questions cover
- Endosymbiosis
- Speciation
- Adaptation
- Mimicry
- Phylogenetics
- Cladistics
- Evo-devo
- Game theory
- Hardy-Weinberg
- Homology
- Inheritance
- Macroevolution
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Question 2
Which English naturalist sailed on HMS Beagle and wrote a famous book about how species change?
- Louis Pasteur
- Charles Darwin
- Isaac Newton
- Gregor Mendel
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Charles Darwin
Question 3
What is the title of the 1859 book that presented a major explanation for how species change over time?
- Silent Spring
- The Selfish Gene
- On the Origin of Species
- The Descent of Man
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On the Origin of Species
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