A change in DNA that can be good, harmful, or neutral.
What is a mutation?
Big ears that let off heat.
What is structural?
Breathing
What is instinct?
Having white fur in the arctic
What is Good?
Neither good nor bad.
What is neutral?
Using a stick to get termites
What is behavioral?
Migrating
What is instinct?
Having freckles
What is Neutral?
A mutation that helps an organism survive or reproduce better than others of its kind.
What is an adaptation?
A torpedo shaped body that cuts through water easily.
What is structural?
"Playing dead" for your human
What is learned?
Having light colored wings in a forest of dark-barked trees
What is Bad?
This is the definition of the word beneficial.
What is good?
Cats meowing pitifully to convince humans to feed them
What is behavioral?
Leaving class when you hear a bell ring
What is learned?
Being a brightly colored poison dart frog
What is Good?
This is the word for a group of animals or plants that are all the same kind living together.
What is a population?
A male chameleon changing color to warn away other males from his territory.
What is BOTH structural and behavioral?
A caterpillar spinning a cocoon.
What is Instinct?
A mutation that makes bacteria immune to antibiotics.
What is Good for the bacteria, Bad for humans!