Genetics
The Austrian monk who conducted experiments on pea plants. Known as the "father of genetics."
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The nucleic acid that pairs with thymine.
What is Adenine?
An organism so long buried, and in the proper conditions, that it turned to stone.
What is a fossil?
The study of life
What is biology?
The field of science where the anatomy of organisms is compared to each other.
The capital B in this genotype for eye color: Bb
What is dominant?
The four nucleic acids that make up DNA.
What are adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine?
A British woman who discovered many fossils in her lifetime. Her discoveries later contributed to the formation of paleontology.
Who is Mary Anning?
The author of Origin of Species who traveled to the Galapagos to study life
Who is Charles Darwin?
What is an embryo?
What you inherited from your parents, but no, these aren't made of denim.
What are genes?
When two parents each contribute a random half of their DNA to create offspring.
What is sexual reproduction?
The study of fossils and artifacts buried underground over time. Generally, the farther underground something is, the older it is.
What is stratigraphy?
The scientist credited in naming the building block of all life - the cell.
Who is Robert Hooke?
The comparison of animals in their stage prior to being born or hatching.
What is comparative embryology?
The structural shape of DNA
What is a double-helix?
When offspring are created by only one parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
When a huge percentage (approximately 70 or more) of species go extinct.
What is mass extinction?
The range of different species living in an area.
What is biodiversity?
A whale and a ______ are more similar to each other and more closely related than a whale and a fish.
What is human/cat/bat/cow (any mammal answer is correct)?
The genetic information or trait expressed in a way we can observe it in an organism.
What is a phenotype?
A form of reproduction when an organism splits into two identical organisms.
What is binary fission?
An unwritten record created by scientists from studying fossils. By examining fossils, their frequency, and where they are found in the ground, scientists can learn about life thousands to millions of years ago.
Anything that is alive
What is an organism?
A graph that shows the evolutionary path of different species. It works similarly to a family tree but among species.
What is a phylogenetic tree?