Science Assessment ~ Topics ~ Evolution and Natural Selection ~ Misconception ENM047

Evolution happens when individual organisms acclimate or "get used to" new conditions gradually (Bishop & Anderson, 1990).

Items that test for misconception ENM047 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
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 ENM047 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.	22%