It's all in the Genes
Powerful Punnett Square
Fossils in Time
Adaptations for Life!
It's only Natural
Where's your evidence?
100
Parents pass this structure to their offspring.
What is a chromosome?
100
This is the percentage each box inside the punnett square is worth.
What is 25%?
100
We can determine that the ammonite lived on Earth before the dinosaur due to this law.
What is the Law of Superposition.
100
A population of rabbits living in a forest has both brown and white rabbits. Over time this environmental change will result in the percentage of white rabbits increasing.
What is a snowy (colder) climate?
100
Variation is a foundational requirement for natural selection to occur. This increased diversity occurs due to mutations and this type of reproduction.
What is sexual reproduction?
100
Looking at the history of the Earth and the organisms that lived in each time, scientists can see that organisms have become more complex over time using this record.
What is the fossil record?
200
A segment of DNA that provides instructions to make proteins is called this.
What is a gene?
200
This is the gene that is always expressed, even when paired with a recessive trait.
What is a dominant trait (allele)?
200
Index fossils and ordering of rock layers are 2 basic methods used to determine this type of age.
What is relative age?
200
At one time peppered moths were primarily light in color with only a few dark colored ones. During the industrial revolution soot covered many of the trees and light peppered moths were eaten by predators. The dark moths increased in frequency because they could now blend in with the soot covered trees. This was due to this type of structural adaptation.
What is camouflage?
200
This is a type of selection that is determined by human choice rather than something natural in the environment. For example, many fruits have been selected to be bigger and/or sweeter over time.
What is selective breeding? (or artificial selection)
200
Some organisms share similar bone structures but have different functions. For example, a bat wing and a whale fin both have a pentadactyl limb with humerus, ulna, radial, and phalanges. This is an example of these types of structures.
What is a homologous structure?
300
Bacteria reproduce through asexual reproduction. Many bacteria species have become antibiotic resistant. This can be attributed to the fact that its DNA often does this frequently.
What is a mutation?
300
Daily Double!!! 
These corn parents (PPxWW) produced the following offspring (PW). This is due to a combination of different alleles being given to the offspring during sexual reproduction. This is the name for this "mix" or combination of alleles (PW). Bonus points if you can name the inheritance pattern observed.
What is hybrid or heterozygous?
(co-dominance inheritance pattern)
300
The ammonite lived during a short period of time over a wide area. The ammonite is an example of this type of fossil.
What is an index fossil?
300
Below is a graph that shows what happened to the running speed of a population of gazelle after a faster predator was introduced. Their speed could be said to have done this.
Blue = before
Black = after
What is increase?
300
Courting dances and fancy plumage are used to attract mates for the purpose of reproduction. This form of natural selection is when the female of the species chooses what genetics is passed down.
What is sexual selection?
300
The pelvic bone in a whale is no longer needed for it to survive. This is an examples of these types of structures.
What are vestigial structures?
400
Humans have created my varieties of produce using technologies such as crisper, which goes in and alters an organism's DNA. This type of altering an organism's genetic code is known as this.
What is genetic engineering?
400
A species of mice show a complete dominance pattern. A black mouse (Bb) is crossed with a white mouse (bb). The percentage chance of their offspring being white is this.
What is 50%?
400
The fossil record spans millions of years and shows how organisms started as simple organisms and diversified and became more complex over time. This record is one of the foundational pieces of evidence for this scientific theory.
What is evolution?
400
Birds eat berries in order to gain nutrients. The plant that provides the berries also is benefited by increasing the chances of seed germination which subsequently increases the chances of successful _____________ and continuation of the species.
What is reproduction?
400
On the Galapagos Islands a species of Iguanas that carried genes for both light and dark color skin spread from Island A to Island B. Island A had more volcanic rock while Island B was more sandy. The chart shows that dark colored iquanas were more apt to survive on island A while light colored iquanas did better on Island B. Darwin developed this theory to explain this "survival of the fittest."
What is natural selection?
400
Whales and Hippopotamus have been shown to have a large amount of DNA that matches. This is most likely due to having this in common.
What is a common ancestor?
500
The expression of traits is based on this molecule that is coded for by an organism's genes.
What is a Protein?
500
A species of flowers shows an incomplete dominance pattern. Two pink flowers (RW) are crossed. These are the possible color offspring that could be produced.
What is red, pink, and white?
500
This is the order of rock layers from OLDEST to YOUNGEST.
What is E, C, B, D, A?
500
Consider a population of finches living on an isolated island. If a drastic shift in the environment were to occur, this feature of the populations genetics and subsequent phenotypes would be necessary for the species to adapt to this change.
What is variation (diversity)?
500
Strawberries, bermuda grass, creeping Charlie all use these horizontal stems that grow along the soil surface, rooting at intervals to create new "clone" plants. These horizontal structures are called this.
What are runners (stolons)?
500
The miohippus and merychippus fossils show the 'between' phases where the multi-toed dawn horse transitioned to the modern horse with hooves. These middle "in between" fossils are called this.
What are transitional fossils?