Genetics
Vocabulary
Plant adaptations
Animal adaptations
Miscellaneous
100
Different forms of genes.
What are alleles?
100
An individual with 2 different alleles.
What is a heterozygous individual?
100
A plant structure that is adapted for support and food storage.
What are roots?
100
A method of hiding that allows otherwise visible animals to remain unnoticed.
What is camouflage?
100
What structures do.
What is function?
200
An individual with 2 identical alleles.
What is a homozygous individual?
200
A part of an organism.
What is structure?
200
A plant structure that is adapted for support and defense.
What are stems?
200
A strategy to conserve energy when conditions are harsh or food is scarce.
What is hibernation?
200
A plant structure that can be dispersed by animals, insects, wind or water.
What are seeds?
300
The visible characteristics of an organism.
What is a phenotype?
300
How an organism differs from others of its species.
What is variation?
300
A plant structure that is adapted to environment and need for sunlight.
What are leaves?
300
A cyclic behavior often related to climate, season, mating or food and water availability.
What is migration?
300
A way to determine the probability (percentage) that offspring will have certain traits.
What is a punnett square?
400
An alphabetic representation of alleles.
What is a genotype?
400
A type of reproduction that results in organisms identical to the parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
400
A plant structure that attracts pollinators by means of shape, smell, and UV light.
What are flowers?
400
A structure that is adapted to feeding style.
What are mouthparts?
400
A method of reproduction that results in offspring that do not look exactly like the parents.
What is sexual reproduction?
500
The father of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
500
How a plant moves in response to gravity.
What is geotropism?
500
How a plant grows in response to light.
What is phototropism?
500
Structures that can be adapted for defense, movement or camouflage.
What are appendages?
500
A method of using paired questions to identify an organism.
What is a dichotomous key?
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