WORTH 300 POINTS
The features that an organism inherits from its parents.
What is trait?
100
Worth 5X
Change in the genetics of a species over time.
What is evolution?
100
DAILY DOUBLE
Influences, such as sunlight and temperature.
What is external/environmental influence?
100
Gregor Mendel used these.
What is pea plant?
100
You see this when you look at an organism.
What is phenotype?
200
200 points each correct answer: There can be more than one answer.
BB or bb
What is Purebred, Homozygous, Dominant, or Recessive?
200
The last member of a species dies, causing a loss of diversity among living things.
What is extinction?
200
DAILY DOUBLE
A tool used to predict the probability of certain traits.
What is Punnett Square?
200
Daily Double!!
Fossils are evidence of this.
What is extinction?
200
Which is the best explanation for the rapid increase of the extinction rate between 1950 and the present.
What is destruction of habitat/humans?
300
Daily Double
A trait that is covered over, or dominated by another trait.
What is recessive?
300
Daily Double
A process that changes DNA to form new alleles.
What is mutation?
300
A trait that covers over, or dominates, another form of that trait.
What is dominant?
300
The Principle that states that one allele can be responsible for producing a trait.
What is Principle of Dominance?
300
The Principle that states that each parent passes only one of the alleles for a trait to its offspring.
What is Principle of Segregation?
400
The different forms of a gene.
What is allele?
400
The genes an organism has, its genetic makeup.
What is Genotype?
400
A combination of genetic makeup & the environment’s effect on that makeup.
What is phenotype?
400
Only 1 answer is needed to get points.
What factors have significant effects on the populations of organisms when competing for light, water, soil, and minerals in a forest.
What is external, environmental, limiting, and or non-living?
400
Chemical messages that can speed up or slow down certain cellular processes.
What is hormone?
500
Production of several species from one ancestral species.
What is adaptive radiation?
500
Process by which organisms that are suited to a particular environment are better able to survive & reproduce than organisms that are not.
What is natural selection?
500
The study of heredity.
What is Genetics?
500
2 correct = double points; 1 correct & 1 wrong - zero points; 2 wrong = minus double points:
1) A complex molecule, shaped like a twisted ladder.
2) The Law that states how traits from both parents can appear in their offspring.
What is
1) What is DNA?
2) Independent Assortment?