Vocabulary
This is a chart that is used to predict the probability of traits in offspring from a cross.
What is a Punnett Square?
Which of the following is the most specific and least inclusive: species, phylum, or kingdom?
What is species?
This genotype has two dominant alleles.
What is homozygous dominant?
This is the scientist that is largely responsible for our understanding of evolution today.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This is the number of cycles of division in mitosis.
What is one?
This is a chart that shows the inheritance of a trait over several generations.
What is a pedigree?
This is the naming system created by Carolus Linneaus that gives each species a two-part name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
This genotype has two different alleles.
What is heterozygous?
What is the biggest source of evidence that scientists have to support the Theory of Evolution?
What are fossils?
This is the type of cell division that is necessary for sexual reproduction.
What is meiosis?
This word means that traits that offer a higher chance of survival will most likely be passed on to offspring.
What is natural selection?
This kingdom consists entirely of prokaryotes.
What is bacteria?
This symbol represents a male with a trait in a pedigree.
What is a colored in square?
What is the word for a trait that helps a species to survive?
What is an adaptation?
This is the number of daughter cells at the end of meiosis.
What is four?
This means the preserved remains of animals, plants, and other organisms from the distant past.
What are fossils/What is a fossil?
This kingdom consists of organisms that are plant-like, animal-like, and fungi-like.
What are protists?
What is a circle?
What is the definition of evolution?
What is the change in a species over time?
This is the type of cell division in which the daughter cells have half the DNA of the parent cells and are not genetically identical to the parent cells.
What is meiosis?
This means the change in a species over time.
What is evolution?
This is the domain that humans are apart of.
What is eukarya?
In chickens, the allele for a pea comb (A) is dominant to the allele for a single comb (a).
A mother with the genotype Aa and a father with the genotype Aa produce an offspring.
What is the percent chance that the offspring will have a single comb?
What is 25%? or What is 1/4?
What is one species that Darwin studied while observing evolution?
What are finches? What are tortoises?
This is the type of cell produced in meiosis.
What is a gamete?