Animal Nutrition
Tusklessness
CSI Wildlife
100
Eating exclusively plants, how are elephants classified?
What is an herbivore?
100
Cause of elephants to be born without tusks
What is a random genetic mutation?
100
Crime that was bing investigated
What is ivory poaching?
200
The tough, fibrous material that gives plants structure and support
What is cellulose?
200
Percentage of tuskless females before poaching
What is 6%?
200
Test used to match tusks with individual elephants
What is DNA fingerprinting or gel electrophoresis?
300
The type of teeth shown at the front of the mouth, for snipping vegetation
What are incisors?
300
Percentage of tuskless females after poaching
What is 50%
300
Identify two sources where elephant DNA can be obtained
What are hair roots, saliva, body tissues, tusks and dung?
400
Length of the digestive system of an herbivore compared to a carnivore
What is longer?
400
Term used to describe organisms with traits best suited to the environment allowing them to survive, reproduce and pass those traits to their offspring
What is natural selection?
400
Shown in the population lanes of the gel electrophoresis for Case 2
What are all the alleles found within the population?
500
Digestive structure found in herbivores that helps in the digestion of cellulose
What is the cecum?
500
Reason tuskless adult males were not included in data
What is they need tusks to fight for a mate?
500
Based on Marker C, the way these elephants are classified for this trait
What is heterozygous?