Heredity
Adaptations
Change over Time
Reproduction
Hodgepodge
100
The passing of traits from one generation to the next.
What is heredity?
100
The term used to explain a characteristic that helps an organism survive in it's natural environment.
What is an adaptation?
100
Another way to describe the process of natural selection.
What is "survival of the fittest"?
100
The type of reproduction that produces offspring from a single parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
100
A grid system used to predict possible genetic outcomes.
What is a Punnett square?
200
A trait that masks another trait
What is a dominant trait?
200
This type of adaptation is a part of the animal.
What is a physical adaptation?
200
A unit of time measured in millions of years.
What is an era?
200
The type of reproductions used by strawberry plants and some ferns.
What are runners?
200
a change in an organism's genetic material
What is a mutation?
300
This contains the chemical instructions for an inherited trait.
What is a gene?
300
An adaptation in which an animal is protected against predators by its resemblance to an unpleasant or dangerous animal.
What is mimicry?
300
The age of a rock when compared to another rock.
What is the relative age?
300
an example of this type of reproduction is a bud growing from a fungus to become a new individual.
What is budding?
300
The time it takes for an elemnt to be cut in half
What is a half-life?
400
An individual who has a gene for a trait, but does not show that trait physically.
What is a carrier?
400
An organism that matches color, shape, and texture of its environment is an example of ....
What is protective coloring?
400
These give scientists clues to what oragnisms were like in the past.
Wha are fossils?
400
One advantage of this is to provide variety within a species.
What is sexual reproduction?
400
Each layer of rock is older than the layer above it
What is the law of superposition?
500
A chart used to trace the history of traits in a family.
What is a pedigree?
500
A type of adaptation that is an organism's response to its environment.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
500
The age of fossils in years.
What is the absolute age?
500
This contains the information that controls an organism's structure and function.
What is genetic material?
500
These can pass on genes for a trait to an offspring without showing evidence of the trait themselves.
What is a carrier?
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