Fossils
What is a fossil?
A bone left behind from a far away ancestor
What is a adaptive trait?
A mutation that gives an advantage in your environment
Whats a structure?
The arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex. (doesn't have to be exact response)
Are Rough-skinned newts safe to touch?
No
What is a mutation?
A random change in a gene
Whats one example of a ancestral bone?
Neck, backbone, radius, ulna, etc.
What is the meaning of non-adaptive trait?
A mutation/trait that doesn't help the animal survive.
What is a instruction for a protein?
A Gene
What type of animal is a newt? (example: a seagull is a bird)
An amphibian
True or False?: A inbred child has a better chance somewhat of danger.
True
What was the descendant of the Mystery fossil? (Wolf, Orca, or Crocodile?)
Wolf
What is the adaptive trait of the Galapagos Tortoise?
The shell leaning upward at the neck.
How many chromosomes do you get from one parent?
23
What action does a Rough-skinned newt do if it is feeling threatened?
It sticks its stomach up.
If a mother had blue eyes and a father had green eyes, what color would the child's eyes be?
Its between the parents or there will be a mutation
What is the name of the ancestor of Camels?
Titanotylopus
"One in every _______ lobsters are blue."
"two million"
Whats a recessive trait?
A genetic characteristic that only appears in an organism’s phenotype (visible trait) when it inherits two identical, recessive alleles—one from each parent.
During our studies on amplify, what adaptive trait for a newt make it to where they can crawl on trees?
Short legs
During our studies on amplify, what adaptive trait made it able to where a bird could get the seeds out of the pinecone?
a Long Beak
What was the first kind of human?
Neanderthal
What was amplify's fictional animal?
Ostrilope
how does scabbing over work? (like when you scrape your knee)
The blood swells up and hardens.
What type of poison does a rough-skinned newt have? (you can say initial)
Tetrodotoxin (TTX)
In amplify's 3.2, what fictional concept did they compare to mutations?
Movie Mutations (example: wolverine)