Which scientist is most closely associated with explaining how favorable inherited traits become more common across generations?

Which process favors inherited traits when their carriers survive and leave more offspring?

Grasshoppers of the same species differ in body color and size. What term describes these differences?

A chick receives genes affecting its beak from its parents. What term names this transmission?

Which observation would best support the idea that crowded seedlings die because they compete for water?

What best measures an organism's biological fitness?

Which feature would help a finch reach food deep inside cactus flowers?

A mountain range prevents two groups of frogs from meeting and mating. What has occurred?

What term describes changes in a population's inherited characteristics across generations?

An advantageous inherited trait guarantees that its carrier will survive.

During a drought, mostly large, hard seeds remain. Which finch feature would be favored?

What does this graph suggest about the drought's effects on the two groups?

What percentage of the original population remained after the event shown?

Which information from fossils is most useful for investigating evolutionary change across geological time?

Which pair is an example of homologous structures?

A dolphin, a bat, and a chipmunk have different lifestyles but share detailed skeletal patterns. What best explains those shared patterns?

Separated finch populations encounter different foods for many generations. Which explanation describes how natural selection could make their inherited beak features less alike?

A trait helpful in one habitat may be harmful in another.

Which observation best supports the idea that differences in finch beak size are inherited?

In a Philippine rice field, green grasshoppers escape birds more often and leave more offspring. If color is inherited, what is likely over many generations?