A species that can only thrive is a small, very specific area is know that have this type of niche.
What is narrow?
100
An owl's ability to hunt at night is know as this type of adaptation.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
100
List the 4 types of asexual reproduction discussed in class.
What is cuttings (vegetative reproduction), spores, binary fission, and budding?
100
Hair color, eye color, and height are all examples of this type of trait.
What is continuous?
100
A technique in which individual plants or animals with desirable traits are bred together to develop plants or animals with specific traits; also called artificial selection
What is selective breeding?
200
To be part of the same species, you must have these two requirements.
What is "the ability to breed and produce fertile/viable offspring?"
200
The three types of symbiotic relationships.
What is commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism?
200
The process of a hydra having a limb detach and create a new version which is genetically identical is known as this.
What is budding?
200
Blood type, tongue rolling, and hitchhiker's thumb are all examples of this type of trait.
What is discrete?
200
Creating wheat that is high in protein, producing large yields, is an example of this type of breeding.
What is artificial selection?
300
True of False. Specialists thrive in cold climates.
What is False
300
A sperm cell and egg come together in fertilization to create this.
What is a zygote?
300
This is how many parents asexual and sexual reproduction have respectively.
What is 1 parent and 2 parents?
300
Traits passed down from parents to offspring are known as _________ traits.
What are heritable traits?
300
The formation of the gametes, the process by which genetic material is duplicated and divided so that each gamete has half the number of chromosomes of a somatic cell
What is meiosis?
400
This term is used to describe the great variety of species you would find in the rainforest.
What is Biodiversity?
400
Fill in the blanks. A species with a ______ niche is known as a generalist. A species with a narrow niche is known as a _______.
What is "broad" and "specialist"?
400
This process involves splitting the DNA of a parent cell creating two identical daughter cells. It is a form of asexual reproduction.
What is binary fission?
400
Down syndrome is a defect that occurs from a third copy of the 21st chromosome. This defect occurs during this stage of reproduction.
What is meiosis?
400
Another name of artificial selection.
What is selective breeding?
500
Countries located closest to "this" have the greatest biological diversity.
What is the equator?
500
The function (role) and habitat of an organism are known as this.
What is Niche?
500
If a zygote is formed, we know it is this type of sexual reproduction.
What is sexual reproduction?
500
This is the part of the cell that carries information about heritable traits.
What is a chromosome?
500
This term describes species that can longer be found in a specific area.