Genetics
Evolution
Ecology
Biology Bonus
100
The probability the offspring of an individual with the genotype Pp and an individual with the genotype pp will be homozygous recessive.
What is 50%?
100
This leads to the frequency of advantageous traits in a population increasing.
What is natural selection?
100
The percent of energy LOST from one trophic level to the next
What is 90%
100
The study of living things
What is Biology?
200
The physical effect caused by a particular set of genes.
What is phenotype?
200
A similar trait due to common ancestry
What are homologous structures?
200
Another term for a producer
What is an autotroph?
200
An adaptation that helps organisms blend into the environment.
What is camouflage?
300
The type of inheritance when a heterozygous individual is a blend of the two alleles
What is incomplete dominance?
300
The mode of selection where both extremes are disadvantageous
What is stabilizing selection?
300
Nonliving aspects of an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
300
Besides photosynthesis, the other reaction that may make an organism an autotroph
What is chemosynthesis?
400
A characteristic determined by a gene not found on the X or Y chromosome.
What is an autosomal trait?
400
A trait that makes it harder for an organism to survive or reproduce
What is an disadvantageous trait?
400
The organelle where photosynthesis occurs
What is a chloroplast?
400
The branch of biology that studies the evolutionary categorization of organisms
What is phylogeny?
500
What is the genotypic ratio expected from a dihybrid cross between two individuals who are heterozygous for both traits?
What is 9:3:3:1?
500
When two different populations cannot physically mate with each other
What is mechanical isolation?
500
The step of photosynthesis in which carbon dioxide is used
What is the light independent reaction or the Calvin Cycle?
500
The wild cat with the most effective hunting rate
What is the black-footed cat?