Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Evolution and Natural Selection ~ Misconception ENM037

Changes in a population occur through a gradual change in all members of a population, not from the survival of a few individuals that preferentially reproduce (Brumby, 1979; Bishop & Anderson, 1990; Anderson et al., 2002; Stern & Roseman, 2004).

Items that test for misconception ENM037 in this project (Evolution) and key idea (When inherited traits are favorable…)
Item ID Number	Item Description	How Often the Misconception was Chosen	Select This Item for My Item Bank
EN032004	Species can change over generations because individuals with traits that are helpful in the current environment are more likely to survive and pass those traits on to their offspring.	38%
EN030004	Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics when a few individual resistant bacteria survive and reproduce, passing their resistance on to the next generation.	23%

Items that test for misconception ENM037 in this project (Evolution) and other key ideas
EM036003	In natural selection, some individuals of the same species have heritable traits that increase in frequency over many generations because they contribute more offspring to the next generation having that trait.	27%
EM029005	If tail length in mice is an inherited trait, the tail length of parents and offspring are related. (Recognize the relationship in a graph.)	22%