Classification Keys and Adaptations
Food Chains and Food Webs
Genetics Terms
Punnett Squares and Pedigree Charts
Brain Teasers
100
What is at least 1 type of adaptations that we have learnt about in this course?
Structural, Behavioural or Physiological
100
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
A food web is a collection of several food chains
100
What are the 4 bases found in DNA?
A, T, C and G
100
Bb is an example of:
1. Homozygous dominant
2. Homozygous recessive
3. Heterozygous
Heterozygous
100
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
200
What is the definition of a structural adaptation from the following 3 options:
1. How an organism acts in its environment.
2. Physical features of an organism.
3.Internal responses in an organism
2. Physical features of an organism
200
The direction of the arrow in a food chain or food web represents the flow of _________
Energy
200
What is the definition of a gene?
Section of DNA that codes for a particular trait
200
In the following Punnett square, what fraction of bean offspring would be yellow?
2/4
200
In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10 years old. How can this be?
They were born in 2005BC
300
How many plants don't grow seeds? Which ones are they?
2 (Fern and Moss/Algae)
300
What is a producer?
An organism that makes its own food (e.g. plants)
300
In what part of the cell will you find DNA?
Nucleus
300
Free earlobes (E) is dominant to attached earlobes (e). Draw a Punnett square between a homozygous dominant individual and a homozygous recessive individual for this trait.
Bonus: What will the genotype and phenotype will their children be?
See board for Punnett Square.
Bonus Answer: Free Earlobes (Ee)
300
A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?
His son
400
Name a feature you could use to distinguish (tell apart) an ash from a field maple
Number of leaves attached to stem, size of leaf, shape of leaf
400
In the following food web, identify 2 producers and 2 carnivores:
Producer: Corn, A Flowering Plant, Lavenders, Mangoes
Carnivore: Rat, Frog, Dragonfly, Thrush Wolf, Python, Eagle
400
Define either genotype or phenotype.
Bonus: What's the difference between a genotype and phenotype?
Genotype is the combination of two alleles for a gene; phenotype is the observable characteristics of an individual
400
2019 Exam (Q2a and b) - Mr Brown will give you a handout for this. Answer the questions on this page
Answer on board
400
What makes this number unique: 8,549,176,320?
It has each number, zero through nine, listed in alphabetical order.