Pass the peas please.
What is the name of the scientist that used the punnet square to study peas?
Gregor Mendel
A characteristic that helps a living thing survive is called what? Give an example.
An adaptation. A jackrabbit has really big ears that allow it to get rid of body heat when it lives in the desert.
All animal life starts the same way. What do you call the single cell where all animals begin life and what do you call the stages of an animals life?
Egg and life cycle.
Physical features as well as some behaviors that are passed from parents to their young are called what?
Inherited traits.
All humans get _____ chromosomes from each parent for a total of _____ chromosomes.
23
46
An adaptation that helps an animal stay hidden is called what?
camouflage
How do reptiles and amphibians differ in the way they are born?
Reptiles hatch from eggs and amphibians go through metamorphosis.
Long fur is dominant (R) and short fur is recessive (r). If one parent had long fur (Rr) and the other has short fur (rr). Draw a punnet square to predict the fur length of the offspring.
Get a white board and, with help from your team, complete the task.
A parent with black wool and a parent with white wool produce an offspring with gray wool. This is an example of what?
incomplete dominance.
When one animal looks like another more dangerous animal to protect itself it is using an adaptation called what?
Mimicry
What are the stages of complete metamorphosis and give an example of an organism that goes through this type of life cycle?
1. Egg
2. Larva
3. Pupa
4. Adult Lady bug
What is a dominant trait and what is a recessive trait. Give an example of what that looks like.
A dominant trait is one that expresses itself in an animal. A recessive trait is one that does not show itself but is still present in the animals DNA.
What did the work of Mendel in the 1800s help people understand?
How traits are inherited.
How can the environment affect the physical characteristics of an animal? Give an example.
An animal can acquire traits due to its environment such as when a flamingo eats shrimp it turns pink or when a manatee is hit by the propellers of a boat it gets strips on its side.
What are the stages of incomplete metamorphosis and give an example of an organism that goes through this type of life cycle?
1. Egg
2. Nymph
3. Adult
Dragonfly, Cicada
Learned behaviors
If you found a species of snake that lived in a corn field that had three different colors, how would these characteristics affect the survival of the species and the individual trait? The colors are bright orange, golden brown, and lightly colored.
The golden brown version would survive better because it would blend in with its environment. The golden brown color would become more numerous because that color snake would get to reproduce more and produce more offspring.
Describe adaptations that a bird that lives near the water could have that a bird in the woods would not have.
Long beak for catching fish
Webbed feet for swimming
Vanessa is observing an organism undergoing metamorphosis. Which stage must she observe to conclude that the organism undergoes incomplete metamorphosis?
Nymph
A behavior that an animal is born knowing such as flying south for the winter is called what?
An instinct.