Melanin
The pigment that gives animals their skin color.
What is Melanin
In this cell cycle stage the chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell
What is Metaphase
The ability to an animal to survive or reproduce
What is Fitness
A process in which humans manipulate animal traits (ex: dog breeding)
What is Artificial Selection
A physical observable trait
What is phenotype
In this process, DNA is "rewritten" as RNA and transported as mRNA.
What is Transcription
This process creates haploid cells with half of the genetic information
What is Meiosis
The process in which gel electrophoresis shows the unique order of DNA segments that make each person unique.
What is DNA fingerprint.
An organizational technique that allows scientists to predict the common ancestry of animals.
What is Phylogenetic Tree
A genetic mutation that lacks the production of melanin
What is Albinism
In a pedigree the squares represent
What is Males
This process is the spontaneous self-destructing of damaged or diseased cells
What is Apoptosis
The biological molecule that cuts DNA at a specific site
What is a Restriction Enzyme
Describe Homologous traits
What are Organisms of common ancestry that have a structure with the same function.
The change in genotype frequencies based on the fitness of an animal
What is Natural Selection
Crossing a Heterozygous with a homozygous recessive creates this genotypic ratio.
NOTE: Use the letter A
What is Aa (50%) & aa (50%)
This cell cycle checkpoint ensures cell growth, synthesis of organelles, and ability to duplicate.
What is Gap 1
The diversification of species over time leading to speciation is called
What is adaptive radiation.
The process in which humans tame dog breeds and traits change over time. Ex: floppy ears
What is Domestication
A mutation that does not change an amino acid sequence
What is a Silent Mutation
A Mutation that shifts how codons are read is called.
What is Frameshift Mutation
In what stage of Meiosis does crossing over occur?
What is Prophase I
Adaptations all penguins have
What is streamline bodies, thick layer of feathers, and ability to hunt in water
Dogs are a direct ancestor of what type of animal (be specific)
What is Grey Wolves
Name the stages of Mitosis in order.
What is Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase