VOCABULARY
IMPORTANT PEOPLE
ADAPTATIONS
PUNNETT
POTPOURRI
100
Deoxynucleic Acid
What is DNA?
100
He studied plants and animals in the Galapagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
A change in an organism or a part of an organism that increases its chance to survive
What is an adaptation?
100
The way we designate the existence of a dominant gene
What is a capital letter?
100
A trait that is expressed or observed
What is dominant?
200
The basic unit that determines a trait
What is a gene?
200
His ship was "The Beagle"
Who was Charles Darwin
200
The ability to blend into the environment by changing color
What is camouflage?
200
The way we designate a recessive trait
What is a lower case letter?
200
A trait that is not seen or expressed but is present
What is recessive?
300
The name for large coils of genes
What are chromosomes
300
He pioneered in genetics by experimenting with plants.
Who was Gregor Mendel?
300
The ability to look like another plant or animal as a form of protection
What is mimicry?
300
The way to designate a heterozygous tall genotype
What is Tt?
300
The name for the type that is seen or expressed
What is the phenotype?
400
The name for a genotype where both alleles are the same.
What is homozygous?
400
The squares we use to figure out genetic probability are named after him
Who is Punnett?
400
The ability to inject toxic substances into prey
What is venomous?
400
The way to represent a homozygous short individual if T represents tall dominance
What is tt?
400
The name of the type that shows the genetic pairing for a trait
What is the genotype?
500
The term for a genotype where the alleles are different
What is heterozygous?
500
He wrote "The Origin of Species
Who is Charles Darwin
500
The term for when an organism contains a toxin so that predators will leave it alone.
What is poisonous?
500
If you cross a heterozygous tall individual (Tt) with a homozygous short individual, the percentage of expected short individuals.
What is 50%
500
An alteration in the makeup of a gene
What is mutation?
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