Dimples, hair color, eye color, attached ear lobes, height, etc.
100
The passing of trait from parent to offspring
What is Heredity?
100
The stage a living organism will go through during its lifetime.
What is Life Cycle?
100
Give an example of a learned behavior in an animal.
What is Hunting?
100
Pieces of your DNA that contain information that determine your traits.
What is a Gene?
200
The way an organism responds or acts.
What is Behavior?
200
When a trait, such as eye color, is passed from parent to offspring we say that the offspring _______________ the trait.
What is Inheridted?
200
The young of an organism.
What is Offspring?
200
The ability to play basket ball is an example of a(n)
1) learned behavior or 2) instinct.
What is 1) Learned behavior?
200
What percentage of your genes do you get from your mother?
What is 50%?
300
the surrondings in which an organism lives
What is Environment?
300
A characteristic that determiens how an organism looks acts or functions
What is Trait?
300
Any living thing can carry out its life on its own
What is Organism.
300
A bird's ability to fly is an example of this.
What is Instinct?
300
The number of chromosomes you get from each parent.
What is 23.
400
Behaviors that are inherited from the parent organism.
What is Instinct?
400
The hereditary material in living organisms that is passed to offspring. Every cell has this double helix.
What is DNA (deoxybonucleic acid)?
400
The number of a kind of organism in one area.
What is Population?
400
Your dad had straight hair and brown eyes, your mom has curly hair and green eyes. What will you be most likely to be born with?
a)red hair/blue eyes
b)blond hair/green eyes
c)straight hair/brown eyes
d)curly hair/brown eyes
What is D) curly hair/brown eyes?
400
XX chromosomes produce a _____________(gender). XY chromosomes produce a ________________ (gender).
What is XX= female XY= male?
500
Actions and behaviors that are learned thrugh trial and error or environment.
What is Learned Behavior?
500
The thread-like strands inside the nucleus of every cell that contain hundreds or thousands of genes that determine physical traits, such as the color of your eyes.
What are Chromosomes?
500
A central group of plants or animals that can only reproduce among themselves
What is Species?
500
A checkerboard type peg board used to chart traits.
What is Punnett Square?
500
In guinea pigs, black fur (B) is dominant over white fur (b). Suppose one guinea pig has two genes for black fur. Another guinea pig has one gene for black fur and one gene for white fur, (Bb). What is the probability that an offspring will have black fur?