Plants
The transfer of pollen from one plant to another.
What is pollination?
Animals may use sounds, movement, colors or patterns, and scents to attract mates.
What are mating behaviors/signals?
The unique characteristics of living things
What are traits?
The offspring of one parent
What is asexual reproduction?
You and your siblings are the results of this.
What is sexual reproduction?
Plants attract pollinators through bright colors, nectar, and sweet smells.
What is the plant-pollinator relationship?
Animals protect their young in 2 main ways.
What are parental care and little or no parental care?
The Father of Genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This animal regenerates itself when it gets injured.
What are sea stars (star fish)?
Each parent contributes half of their genes.
What is genetic variation?
Name the 3 methods of seed dispersal.
What is wind, water, and animals?
Factors that affect the growth of animals.
What are external and internal factors?
Two capitalized letters
What is homozygous dominant?
Some plants reproduce without seeds. (Name 3 examples)
What are sweet potatoes, potatoes, strawberries, onions, or house plants?
(any combo of these)
Once plants go through _______, they produce seeds.
What is fertilization?
Name 4 out of 6 of the main things that plants need.
What are Water, sunlight, space, nutrients, air (CO2), and suitable temperature?
Examples of external factors that affect growth
What are environmental factors?
- climate, food, space, predators
We're making cookies!
______ is like the recipe and ______ is the finished cookie.
What are genotype and phenotype?
(Order matters)
Name all 3 types of Asexual reproduction we learned in class.
What are regeneration, budding, and vegetative reproduction?
The male plant part that produces pollen.
The female plant part that contains the ovule.
What are the stamen and pistil?
List the plant life cycle in correct order.
What is "Seed, germination, seedling, mature plant, flowering, seed production"?
Spiders instinctively know how ot build webs to catch food.
Birds learn how to fly through trial and error and reinforcement from their parents.
What are innate and learned behaviors?
(most identify which is which)
Cross 2 heterozygous parents. Name the ratio.
What is 2:1:1 OR 2:2?
Reproduce without a mate.
Reproduce offspring quickly.
What are the pros (benefits) of asexual reproduction?
It takes lots of time and energy to mate and care for offspring.
What are the disadvantages (cons) of sexual reproduction?