vocabulary
instinct/ learned
cell division
enviormental factors
anything goes
100
a trait that only needs 1 factor to show up
What is a dominant trait
100
This trait is a result of environment. ( tounge rolling, hairstyle, or eye color)
What is hairstyle?
100
When a cell goes through mitosis, it makes what?
an exact copy of itself.
100
A frog moves to a nearby pond because his pond has been drained by its owner. What changed that caused the frog to move?
What is its environment?
100
an egg hatches into a caterpillar, which eats, becomes a pupa, emerges as a butterfly, and lays eggs. This is an example of a ______.
What is a life cycle?
200
All living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism.
What is enviornment
200
A dog runs to the canopener when he hears it running, this is a _______.
What is learned behavior?
200
When you lose dead skin, what process forms the new skin underneath?
What is mitosis?
200
This enviornmental factor can cause genetic mutation.
What is pollution?
200
a characteristic that appears only when there are two traits.
What is recessive?
300
a way of acting that is passed from parents to offspring.
What is an inherited trait?
300
Sam can roll his tounge but his brother cannot, this is because his brother has not practiced this trait or because he did not inherit the trait?
Did not inherit the trait
300
The first phase of mitosis is_____
What is prophase
300
What happens when people fence off parts of the environment?
This reduces the size of livable space and forces animals to share their habitat with humans.
300
Location on a chromosome that contains DNA.
What is a gene?
400
The process by which cells divide.
What is mitosis
400
Both of Rita's parents have a recessive trait for attached earlobes, more than likely, her brother will have what type of earlobes and why?
What is attached and because if the trait is recessive in both parents there is not a dominant factor to overshadow the recessive one.
400
when the chromosomes line up down the cell's middle this is called ____
What is metaphase?
400
Preserving or protecting the enviornment is called______
What is conservation?
400
The passing of traits to an offspring.
What is heredity?
500
Threadlike structure in a cell nucleus.
What is a chromosome.
500
a mouse learns to run a maze to find food, is finding food and running the maze an instinct or learned behavior? (hint: This one is really tricky!)
There is an instinct to look for food, but running the maze is learned.
500
What is the last phase of mitosis? When a new cell is made.
What is Telophase?
500
_____ is cleaning and restoring the environment.
What is reclamation?
500
Blonde hair, brown hair, blue eyes are all _____
What are traits?
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