Vocabulary
"a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group"
what is a species?
This introduces variation to DNA.
What is a mutation?
This is something that all members of a species have.
What is a feature?
Rough-Skinned Newts are found in this area of the United States.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
"a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment"
what is a non-adaptive trait?
The vast majority of mutations do this.
What is nothing?
This is what makes a member of a species unique.
What is a trait?
This is the habitat of a rough-skinned newt.
What is water AND land?
"the process in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring"
what is reproduction?
If a mutation results in an adaptive trait, we can expect it to do this over many generations.
What is becomes more common?
What is a trait?
This is the natural predator of the rough-skinned newt
What is the garter snake?
"any difference in traits between individual organisms"
what is variation?
A trait is non-adaptive if it does this.
What is "keeps the organism from surviving and/or reproducing?"
This is an adaptive trait for dogs who live in cold locations.
What is long fur/long hair?
This is how snakes know not to eat a particularly poisonous rough skinned newt.
What is taste it?
"the number of individuals with each trait in a population"
what is distribution?
In a group of rainforest plants, what is an adaptive mutation if the environment changes from high to low rainfall?
What is HIGH water storage?
Adaptive traits do this over many generations.
What is become more common?
This is the (full) name of the poison that Rough Skinned Newts produce.
What is tetradotoxin?