Genetics
Gene Editing
Natural Selection
Evolution
Miscellaneous
100
How many alleles (letters) does a child get from each parent for each trait?
One
100
Give an example of biotechnology...
CRISPR
Gene Therapy
Genetic Engineering
etc.
100
Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.
Natural Selection
100
Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.
Adaptation
100
What islands did Charles Darwin investigate before creating his theory of evolution?
Galapagos Islands
200
The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics
Genetics
200
Gene editing technology, like CRISPR, could be used to treat what?
Cancer
Genetic Disease
Sickle Cell Anemia
(genetic disorders)
200
Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?
Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
200
When a species changes over time in order to survive...
Evolution
200
What layer of rock can you find fossils?
Fossils are almost exclusively found in sedimentary rock layers.
300
W=white hair
w= non-white hair
If you cross a horse with WW and a horse with ww what fraction of the offspring would be expected to have white hair?
4/4
300
Which genetic engineering technique allows us to produce multiple, identical copies of a single gene?
Cloning
300
What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?
To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
300
What is "Survival of the Fittest"?
You can use the survival of the fittest to refer to a situation in which only the strongest people or things continue to live or be successful, while the others die or fail.
300
Mutations are a change in what?
DNA
400
this image is an example of...
Incomplete Dominance
400
Inserting a normal gene or editing an existing gene is called...
Gene Therapy
400
A population of rabbits grows rapidly from one year to the next. Then one year, a disease strikes approximately one fourth of the adult rabbits. The disease remains with the population in the years that follow.
As explained by Darwin’s theory, which of these conditions allows the rabbit population to evolve by natural selection?
Some rabbits are resistant to the disease, and they pass the resistance to their offspring.
400
List all 5 driving forces of evolution.
Small population
Non-random mating
Mutation
Gene Flow
Adaptation
400
What month is Mrs. Abraham's birthday?
February
500
Who is considered the "father" of modern genetics?
Gregor Mendel
500
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are...
a product of selective breeding/human intervention.
500
Before the invention of the light bulb, Americans burned oil in lamps for light. Whale oil was popular bio-fuel for these
lamps. Ship crews would hunt whales for their oil. They searched for the largest whales they could find so that they could obtain as much whale oil as possible. How might decades of whale hunting possibly affect the natural selection of the species?
The whales became smaller.
500
A. Natural Selection acting on a harmful trait.
500
DNA is short for _____
Deoxyribonucleic Acid