Vocabulary
A specific characteristic of an individual organism.
What is a trait?
Offsprings get one copy of each_______from each parent for a trait?
Gene
If a father parakeet has blue chest feathers, a mother has green chest feathers. How could their offspring have blue chest feathers?
Due to different combination of genes from both parents.
Information that is used to support or go against a claim.
What is evidence?
Who is the angel that inspires love in people on Valentine's Day
Cupid
To receive genes from a parent
What is inherit?
A__________is a random change in a gene version?
Mutation
In a scorpion the structure of its protein changed but the amount of the protein did not change. What would be the effect of the protein structure changing?
Due to the structure change, the protein may function differently or not function at all.
When a male and a female reproductive cell combine to create an offspring.
What is fertilization?
How many continents are there? Which one do we live on?
7 and North America
Any differences in traits between individual organisms.
What is variation?
Eye color is an example of ____________?
Your blood includes_________protein molecules called clotting factors.
13
A long piece of DNA that contains many genes.
What is a chromosome?
What ocean is next to New York?
Atlantic
Instructions for making a protein molecule.
What are genes?
The_________of a protein determines its__________?
structure,function
A person that does not have the right instructions for making clotting factor has a condition called________?
Hemophilia
A random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait.
What is a mutation?
What is Mr. Carty's first name?
Tom
A type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of.
What is DNA?
Why do siblings look different from each other even though they have the same parents?
Parents pass on genes which lead to different combinations of the genes to lead to different traits.
Identical twins have ____________genes
Identical
An organism produced as a result of reproduction
What is offspring?
What process does plants use to make food?
Photosynthesis