Natural Selection
What is Natural Selection?
Natural Selection is selection that happens naturally, or by nature.
What is a physical trait?
When an organism goes into a low energy state for the winter, what is this process called.
Hibernation
What would be the primary reason for an organism to be poisonous?
In order to keep things from eating them.
What is Selective Breeding?
Is camouflage more of a result of Natural Selection or Selective Breeding?
Natural Selection.
What causes an organism to show a recessive trait?
When they have both chromosomes as recessive genes.
Why do birds migrate to other places?
In order to survive weather changes.
In order to survive colder temperatures.
Selective Breeding.
Is large size in prey animals more a result of Natural Selection or Selective breeding?
What is it called when a genome looks like this (Ww)
Heterozygous
What is the purpose of Phototropism in Plants?
Allows for the plants to ensure that they get sunlight for photosynthesis.
What is the reason for plants developing larger leaves?
In order to absorb more sunlight for photosynthesis.
A lot of food.
Who came up with the Theory of Evolution?
Charles Darwin
What do we call the process of transferring genetic information from one generation to the next?
Heredity.
Why are Venus Flytraps carnivorous?
Their environments don't have all the nutrients they need to survive
What is the purpose of bright colors on flowers?
To get insects to come to them for pollination.
What is the most probable reason that we would selectively breed cows?
Increased milk production.
What is the difference between Natural Selection and Selective Breeding?
Selective breeding is where there is outside interference and Natural selection is where nature decides.
What is the difference in Homozygous Dominant and Homozygous Recessive?
If the chromosomes are either both dominant or both recessive.
What causes a fight or flight reaction in organisms?
Adrenaline
What is the purpose of Cacti developing spines?
What is the most likely reason we would selectively breed sunflowers?
To increase the amount of seeds they produce.