Reproduction
Traits and Heredity
Animal Adaptations
Change Over Time
Misc.
100
The production of a new organism from a single parent
What is asexual reproduction?
100
A trait that an offspring receives from its parents
What is an enharited trait?
100
Any characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is adaptation?
100
The remains, traces, or imprints of living things preserved in the in the Earth's crust.
What are fossils
100
When two parents produce offspring.
What is sexual reproduction?
200
One of the three types of asexual reproduction
What are splitting, budding, or vegetative propagation?
200
A trait that dominates, or masks, another form of that trait
What is a dominant trait?
200
An adjustment in an organisms behavior
What is behavioral adaptation?
200
Occurs when the organisms that are best suited to their environments survive and reproduce successfully.
What is natural selection
200
This type of trait is masked by dominant traits.
What is a recessive trait?
300
Plant stems that lie on or under the ground and sprout up as new plants. Strawberry plants send these out
What are runners?
300
A way of acting that an animal is born with, and not have to learn
What is instinct?
300
Any coloring, shape, or pattern that allows an organism to blend in with its environment.
What is camouflage?
300
This is how change takes place in organisms as they adapt to their environment.
What is over time?
300
This person was studied in class; she is a scientist at the American Museum of Natural History.
Who is Caroline Chabooboo?
400
A sperm cell from a male and an egg cell from a female join into a single unit during this process
What is fertilization
400
Any individual who has inherited the gene for a trait, but does not show that trait physically
What is carrier?
400
An adaptation in which an animal is protected against predators by its resemblance to an unpleasant animal.
What is mimicry?
400
The age of a fossil in years.
What is absolute age?
400
These species of birds survived on the Galopagos Islands because of their variations.
What is the finch?
500
The transfer of genetic material from parent to offspring
What is reproduction?
500
An Austrian monk who studied the principles of heredity
Who is Gregor Mendel?
500
Arctic hares survive in their snowy environment by using this method of camouflage.
What is protective coloration?
500
A change in an organism's genetic material
What is mutation?
500
In the Caroline Chabooboo article, this weakened the palm trees, but did not kill them.
What is a tortoise beetle?
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