Miles Morales
DNA & Genetic Inheritance
Climate Change & Global Warming
In the Lab
100
The name of the family member who contacted Miles through a letter.
Who is Aaron?
100
These are determined by proteins. They are observable characteristics of a living thing.
What are traits or phenotypes?
100
This is the short-term change in the atmosphere. It can change day by day.
What is the weather?
100
A scientist will use this one-sentence statement to respond to a science question.
What is a claim?
200
Miles thinks that he is ___________ to "bad blood."
What is predisposed?
200
This is the genetic code (blueprint) that determines how an organism grows and develops. It is in the shape of spiral staircase.
What is DNA?
200
This is the term that describes long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns due to human activity.
What is climate change?
200
A lab equipment.
What is a petri dish?
300
This person told Miles during his history class, "It would be in your best interest to put a muzzle on...this anger of yours, Morales."
Who is Mr. Chamberlain?
300
These are segments of DNA. They determine what proteins are made in an organism.
What is a gene?
300
This is the term that describes one form of climate change. It is the increased temperature of the Earth caused by human activity.
What is global warming?
300
Scientists use descriptions (without numbers or units), also called ________ observations in the lab.
What is qualitative?
400
In Miles's dreams, he keeps seeing this animal. He also saw this animal on his history teacher's wrist.
What is a white cat?
400
This is a version of a gene for a trait. An organisms gets one of these from each parent.
What is an allele?
400
This is the term to describe the impact we have on the human environment. We calculated our class average recently.
What is ecological footprint?
400
The _________ variable is the one that "I" the scientist changes in the lab.
What is independent?
500
This is a spider phenotype that Miles used to sneak out of the poetry slam right when he was supposed to go on stage.
What is camouflage?
500
This is the baby spider's genotype.
What is Bb, heterozygous?
500
This is the term that describes how the Earth's atmosphere becomes thick with gas that trap the sun's radiation which makes the Earth warmer.
What is the greenhouse gas effect?
500
This is an explanation that you develop that connects the evidence to the claim. You can use words like "because" in this explanation.
What is reasoning?
600
The person who said this to Miles: "I do know one thing. It used to be said that spiders could connect the past with the future. Something about the symbolism of the web."
Who is Mrs. Tripley or the librarian?
600
This is the process that we used to transfer the pGLO gene from the jellyfish into E.coli.
What is genetic transformation?
600
One effect of global warming is on spider habitats. Warmer temperatures can force spiders to ______ from one location to another.
What is migrate?
600
The data or _______ variable we collect in the lab can be used as ______ to support a claim.
What is dependent? What is evidence?