Natural Selection
Evaluate the Claim
Evolutionary Genetics
Previous Units
Potpourriiiiii
100

Name a resource

Food, water, shelter, sunlight, space, available reproductive partners, trees, rocks, idk dude there's a lot of these

100

Analogous structures between organisms are strong evidence of a common ancestor

What is "this is not true, analogous structures have similar functions but different structures, meaning that the organisms likely did not evolve from a common ancestor"

100
A species may look different after a natural disaster because a natural disaster is an example of this, which greatly reduces genetic diversity in a population and may remove some alleles completely

What is a genetic bottleneck?

100

This is the part of the RNA that is spliced out before translation happens

What is an exon?

100

This is a word beginning and ending with fifth letter of the alphabet

What is epee, eve, excrete, evaluate, eviscerate, expunge, exhume, endure, etc.

200

Hawks eating squirrels is an example of this for the squirrel population

What is a selection pressure?

200

Chickens and geckos having similar skull structures likely means they likely share a common ancestor in their past

What is "this claim is true, homologous structures like those in avians and reptiles indicate a good chance that they have a common ancestor with a similar skull shape"

200
Part of a bird population being isolated from the rest of the population and winding up being 1.5x the size of the original population after generations of reproduction is an example of this

What is genetic drift?

200

This part of the cell is responsible for storage of materials, such as the amino acids needed to attach to tRNA for translation

What is vacuole or vesicle?

200

Raekwon and Inspectah Deck are some lesser known members of this hip-hop group but cash still rules everything around them. And you still wouldn't want to meet them in the 36 Chambers.

Who are the Wu-Tang Clan?

300

This is the name for the mathematical model of populations that are not undergoing natural selection

What is Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?

300

The following evidence indicates that humans and cats have a more recent common ancestor than humans and dogs

Casein sequence:

Human: A A C G    Cat: A A T T     Dog: A A C C

What is "this claim is likely false based on the evidence, human and dog DNA for the sequence for casein is more similar than human and cat, similar DNA indicates a more recent split from a common ancestor"

300

An organism's likelihood to pass down its genetics is referred to as this

What is its fitness or reproductive fitness?

300

Water is this, which means it forms hydrogen bonds with other things that are this, but NOT with things that are non-this.

What is polar?

300

Its Electrode!

Whose that pokemon?

400
For natural selection to occur, a population must have or be undergoing all four of these things

Selection pressure, competition, genetic diversity, reproduction

400

Fossil evidence is stronger evidence for phylogeny than DNA evidence

What is "this claim is false, it depends on the amount of evidence that you have, and with similar amounts of information, DNA is the stronger piece of evidence. Fossils are snapshots of a location and time of one individual, DNA is likely similar through a whole species"

400

In Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, if the dominant allele has a frequency of 0.6, what is the frequency of the recessive allele?

What is 0.4?

400

Following a pattern of incomplete dominance, these are the chances that two heterozygous parents with red fur produce a child with red fur.

What is 25%?

400

This point guard, nicknamed "White Chocolate" is one of the few people in the NBA to go the finals with the same organization both as a coach and player (not at the same time).

Who is Jason Williams?

500

A population without limited resources or selection pressures will experience growth that follows this type of mathematical function

What is exponential?

500

Logarithmic growth means that a population is undergoing natural selection

What is "this statement is false. While logarithmic growth is often an indicator that a species may be undergoing natural selection, it simply implies that there is a selection pressure and/or limited resources, not that organisms are adapting to those conditions"

500

In Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, if the dominant allele has a frequency of 0.6, what is the frequency of the homozygous dominant genotype?

What is 0.36?

500

This is likely the last part of the protein's structure that will break down when it is denaturing from heat exposure

What is the primary structure?

500

This Houston based author will always have his heart in San Antonio where he worked as a newspaper reporter and middle school science teacher before writing hits such as The Rap Yearbook, Hip-Hop And Other Things, and Movies And Other Things

Who is Shea Serrano?

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