DNA
A change to DNA that may affect traits.
What is a mutation?
Adaptations make it _______ for an animal to survive. (easier/harder)
What is easier?
This process means that strong things survive and reproduce while weak things die.
What is natural selection?
This is the term for how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
What is Isaac Newton known for?
What is the theory of gravity and laws of physics.
True or False: Mutations always have a negative effect on an organism.
What is false?
A trait that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
The process by which individuals with favorable traits survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
The two letters that represent what genes an organism has.
What is genotype?
What is Albert Einstein known for?
The gene that will be expressed even if another gene is present and is always represented by a capital letter.
What is dominant?
True or False: A mutation can lead to an adaptation.
What is true?
The permanent disappearance of a species.
What is extinction?
The physical characteristics that you see as a result of an organism's genotype.
What is phenotype?
What is Rosalind Franklin known for?
What is the first picture of DNA?
A gene that will not be expressed if another gene is present and is always represented by a lowercase letter.
What is recessive?
Adaptations help organisms to do this in their environment.
What is survive and reproduce?
True or False: Natural selection will happen only if humans are involved.
What is false?
What is the percent chance that parents with Tt will have a child with Tt? (Use a Punnett square.)
What is 50%?
What is Copernicus known for?
What is the theory that the earth revolves around the sun?
This is one cause of a mutation.
What is chemicals, radiation, mistakes in cell division, or mistakes in DNA processing.
If an environment slowly gets colder, these are adaptations species might develop to survive.
What is thicker fur, blubber, or small ears and paws.
If an environment changes and a species cannot adapt, it will probably do this.
What is go extinct?
Two plants, one with purple flowers and one with white flowers are crossed. If the seeds produce a plant with purple flowers, then that allele is probably this.
What is dominant?
What is Charles Darwin known for?
What is the theory of evolution?