Inheritance
These are found in the nucleus and carry genetic information.
What are chromosomes?
The word use to escribe differences between individuals in a species
What is variation?
This is how species change over time to become better adapted.
What is evolution?
This is when humans breed plants or animals for useful features.
What is selective breeding?
This subatomic particle has a negative charge.
What is an electron?
This molecule carries the instructions to make proteins. (Contains the entire code for making a human)
What is DNA?
The term use to describe a change in DNA
What is a mutation
This scientist came up with the theory of natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This is a risk of selective breeding that makes animals more likely to get diseases.
What is reduced variation or inbreeding?
This part of the nervous system carries messages from the body to the brain.
What is a sensory neuron?
Different versions of the same gene
What is an allele?
The term used to describe when someone inherits 2 DIFFERENT versions of an allele from their parents
What is heterozygous
In natural selection, individuals that survive are more likely to do this.
What is reproduce and pass on their genes?
This process involves changing the DNA of an organism.
What is genetic engineering?
This is the energy transferred when an object is lifted.
What is gravitational potential energy?
If two alleles are the same, the organism is this.
If two alleles are the same, the organism is this.
The term used to describe the PHysical characteristic inherited by an offspring
What is phenotype
Fossils give us evidence for this process.
What is evolution?
This organism is often genetically modified to produce insulin because it is small and can reproduce fast.
What is bacteria?
Ions are formed when atoms do this with electrons.
What is gain or lose electrons?
This is the name for a chart used to predict the inheritance of alleles.
What is a Punnett square?
The term used to describe an allele that only required one copy in order for that trait to be expressed
What is dominant
This is when a species no longer exists.
What is extinction?
This is one concern people have about genetic engineering.
What is the unknown long-term effect or ethical concern?
This time of bond involved atoms sharing electrons
What is a covalent bond