Vocabulary
Environmental Change and Trait Distribution
Natural Selection and Reproduction
Mutations
Previous Units
100
This is the definition of environment.
What is everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism?
100
Populations change over time because:
Claim 1: They need/want to adapt in order to survive.
Claim 2: Environments they live in cause them to a redistribution of traits through selective pressures.
What is Claim 2?
100
Offspring inherit their traits from _______.
What is their parents?
100
Mutations occur because...
Claim 1: random changes to instructions in DNA occur.
Claim 2: because pressures from the environment make populations need them.
What is Claim 1?
100
More potential energy enters a system of repelling magnets as you move them ______ to one another.
What is "closer"?
200
This is the definition for mutation.
What is a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
200
In this ostrilope population ______ is a adaptive trait.
What is being yellow (level 7)?
200
This is the percentage of genes an offspring gets from each parent.
What is 50%?
200
Mutations will _______ lead to an adaptive trait.
A.) Very rarely
B.) Always
C.) Never
D.) Potential Energy
What is A?
200
This is the type of light wave with the shortest wavelength.
What are Gamma waves?
300
This is the definition for adaptive trait.
What is a trait that will make it more likely for an individual to survive in their environment.
300
Create a scenario that describes an environment and an adaptive trait that an organism has in that enviroment.
Answers may vary
300
When compared to individuals in their population with adaptive traits, individuals with non adaptive traits are less likely to __________
What to survive or pass down their traits?
300
The mutation that led to lobsters appearing blue is an example of a ________ trait because the appearance of this new trait did not become more or less common over time.
a.) Adaptive
b.) Non-adaptive
c.) none of the above
What is option C?
300
This is a dependent variable.
What is the variable that is measured or observed, and its value is believed to be influenced by the independent variable?
400
This is the definition for gene.
What is an instruction for making a protein molecule?
400
This is how you would describe the variation in the population at generation 50.
What is there is no variation in the color trait for this population by generation 50?
400
There are more green than brown dragonflies because ________
What is more green dragonflies survived longer and passed down their traits, so the green trait became more common over time? Not because the green dragonflies age slower than other dragonflies?
400
If a mutation leads to a non-adaptive trait, this mutated trait will become ______ common in a population over time.
What is "less"?
400
This is the moon phase that occurs between the first quarter moon and and full moon phases.
What is waxing gibbous?
500
This is the definition of "Natural Selection".
What is the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations?
500
In an environment with no snakes, this is how you would describe the poison trait of a rough skinned newt with a high level of poison.
What is non-adaptive or not adaptive or a regular trait?
500
B2B1 is a _______ that codes for the trait for having many leg bristles in a spider.
What is a gene version?
500
This mutation leads to a _____ trait appearing in the eelpout population between Time 1 and Time 2. This new trait became _____ common between Time 2 and Time 3.
What is "non-adaptive"?
What is "less"?
500
Newton's 2nd law states: The force on an object is equal to its ______ times its acceleration.
What is Mass?