Genes
Evolution
Natural Selection
Body Systems
Vocabulary
100

If this allele is present, then it will show up in the offspring's phenotype.

What is dominant?

100
After many generations a paw changes into a fin to better suit the organisms needs, this is a form of what type of adaption?

Structural Adaptation

100

Two species are fighting over a source of food, this is an example of

Competition
100

When you eat a sandwhich, what are the first two steps it takes before entering your stomach?

Mouth and Esophagous

100

One capital, one lowercase

One dominant, one recessive

Heterozygous

200

Describe this genotype:  RR

Homozygous Dominant

200

A scientist uses the structure of a marine animals skull to determine its previous common ancestor. This is an example of what type of evolutionary evidence?

Comparative anatomy

200

The process where organisms better suited to their environment survive and pass on their traits

Natural Selection

200

How many chambers are in your heart and what are they called?

4 Chambers

Left/Right Atrium, Ventricle

200
Two different dominant alleles are both being expressed

Codominance

300

In a dihybrid punnett square:

1. How many offspring are represented

2. What is the ratio

1. 16 offspring

2. 9:3:3:1

300

Name one piece of evidence which proves evolution.

What is: 

* Comparative anatomy (homologous structures)

* Fossil record

* DNA comparison

* Geological Data

300

Name two resources that species might fight over.

Food

Territory

Reproduction

Shelter

Water

300

When breathing, what actions does your diaphram take to help you breathe?

Contracts to breathe in, expands to breathe out

300

The airsacs that trade oxygen and carbon dioxide to your blood through capillaries

Alveoli

400

If a genotype has incomplete dominance, what happens to the dominant traits?

The traits are mixed

400

The creation of a new species

Speciation

400

Give an example of adaptive radiation

~Answer Varies~

400

What are the two types of digestion that occur within your digestive system?

Mechanical and Chemical

400
The name of the flap that decides on if something enters your lungs or your stomach

Epiglottis

500

For a punnett square with RW x RW (R=red W=white), what are the possible genotype combinations and their incomplete dominant phenotypes?

RR - Red

WW - White

RW - Pink

500

A species of snail has been separated by a creek after a heavy rain. After many generations they have evolved to be a new species. This is an example of?

Biogeographical isolation

500

A Galapagos finch with a thick beak is found to be a stowaway on a boat traveling the islands. The bird is released on a neighboring island. What will happen to the bird?

Starve

Won't Reproduce

Eaten by predators

500

When blood enters the heart, what direction and chamber is it entering? When it leaves, what chamber and what direction?

Deoxygenated into right atrium, leaves right ventricule to lungs

Lungs to left atrium, left ventricle to body 

500

The 3 different parts to the small intestine

Duodenum, Jejunum, Ileum

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