Heredity
The material located in the nucleus that provides genetic instructions to an organism
What is DNA?
The type of reproduction that produces uniform offpsring
A skill that must be learned through teaching or other life experiences
What is a learned behavior?
What are parents?
A group of cells that work together to perform a function
What is a tissue?
A segment of a chromosome that determines a particular trait
What is a gene?
The number of individuals required for sexual reproduction to occur
What is 2?
A trait or behavior that is innately known and is contained in an organism's DNA
What is an inherited/acquired trait?
A type of reproduction where an organism makes an exact copy of its DNA and then splits in two
What is binary fission?
The type of cell that contains a cell wall, large vacuoles, and chloroplasts
What is a plant cell?
Tightly wound DNA in the nucleus
What is sexual reproduction?
The fight or flight mechanism
What is an inherited trait?
A type of reproduction where an organism breaks into pieces and each piece grows into a new individual
What is fragmentation?
A cell that does not have a nucleus
What is a prokaryotic cell?
Which of the following cell parts does NOT relate to heredity?
Nucleus, chromosome, mitochondria, DNA
Mitochondria
3 types of asexual reproduction
What are budding, fragmentation, and binary fission?
Name 2 examples of a learned behavior in humans
Examples: spoken language, riding a bike, driving a car
A type of reproduction where a small growth on the parent organism breaks off to form an identical organism
What is budding?
The body system responsible for producing offspring
What is the reproductive system?
Example: hair color is passed from parents to daughter
3 advantages of sexual reproduction
1 disadvantage of sexual reproduction
Advantages: increased variation, increased adaptability, more likely to overcome environmental change, produces diverse offspring
Disadvantages: requires 2 parents, requires more energy to produce and raise offspring, generally takes more time
A bear hibernates during the winter
What is an inherited trait?
3 advantages of asexual reproduction
1 disadvantage
Advantages: can quickly grow population, doesn't require a lot of energy to produce or raise offspring, only requires 1 organism
Disadvantages: all offspring are the same, not very adaptable to environmental change
The 2 organ systems that plants contain
What are the root system and shoot system?