This organ is very strong because it needs to pump blood all the way up a giraffe's long neck.
What is a heart?
100
These animals are commonly referred to as "man's best friend."
What are dogs?
100
This is a complete set of genes.
What is a genome?
100
The genome of this creature had never been studied before.
What is a sea horse?
100
The name of a Polar Bear/Grizzly Bear hybrid.
What is a Pizzly or Grolar Bear?
200
Scientists are replacing genes of this animal with giraffe genes, to see if the animal's skeletal structure changes.
What is a mouse?
200
This animal is believed to be the closest wild ancestor of modern dogs.
What is the gray wolf?
200
This is where woolly mammoths lived.
What is Siberia or Wrangel Island?
200
Scientists put the sea horse dorsal fin gene into this animal to see if it would change the phenotype of this animal.
What is a zebrafish?
200
This is the climate phenomenon causing Polar Bears to migrate further south.
What is Climate Change or Global Warming?
300
This animal has a very similar genome to a giraffe, which means they are like animal cousins.
What is an Okapi?
300
This is the process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm, and it may not have happened until after dogs spread to different regions about 15,000 years ago.
What is domestication?
300
This is when the last of the woolly mammoths went extinct.
What is 4,000 years ago?
300
This is the type of sea horse that gives birth.
What is the male seahorse?
300
This is the estimated number of polar bears left.
What is 20,000 - 25,000 polar bears?
400
This is twice as high as a human's.
What is giraffe blood pressure?
400
This is how long ago scientists estimate that dogs split from gray wolves.
What is 33,000 years ago?
400
These are the 2 populations of Woolly Mammoth.
What is Wrangel Island and Siberian.
400
This is how long sea horses have been a species.
What is 13 million years?
400
This is how long ecologists have been researching grizzly bears and polar bears mating.
What is over ten years?
500
Scientists are studying this to help develop treatments for humans.
What is giraffes' high blood pressure?
500
This is where scientists have determined dogs originally came from.
What is southeast Asia?
500
A complete set of genes from a woolly mammoth that scientists are studying to find out why the animals died out.
What is the woolly mammoth's genome?
500
These are units of heredity that are transferred from a parent to offspring and determine some characteristic of the offspring. In the case of sea horses; they can code for not having teeth or a dorsal fin.
What are genes?
500
This is set of observable physical traits of an individual. For example, when a polar bear and grizzly bear mate, the grizzly is genetically dominant and the hybrid physically looks more like a grizzly than a polar bear.