What is eye color, hair color, dimples, attached earlobes, freckles, skin color, hitchhikers thumb, height, and/or body size or shape? (Any other answers must be approved by the teacher.)
100
A color or shape in an animals body that helps it blend into its environment.
What is camouflage?
100
One characteritic of humans that sets us apart from most other organisms. (Excluding primates)
What are opposable thumbs?
200
There are two kinds of traits, inherited and _______.
What is behavioral traits. (Learned traits)
200
1 reason why Mendel used pea plants to study heredity.
What is easy to observe traits, they grow and reproduce quickly, and/or they very distinct traits?
200
A ducks webbed feet is an example of a behavioral characteristic or a physical characteristic?
What is physical characteristic?
200
To pass the winter in an inactive or dominant state?
What is hibernation.
200
An example of a catastrophic event that changes an environment.
What is volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, asteroids hitting Earth, or any other acceptable answer?
300
The name of the study of how heredity works.
What is genetics?
300
This is a table used to predict the outcome of crossing different forms of traits.
What is a punnett square.
300
A behavior an animal is born with but does not learn.
What is instinct?
300
An example of a trait a giraffe has to help it survive.
What is long neck, tough tongue, spotted color, body length or shape, and/or teeth. (Any other answer must be approved by the teacher.)
300
Blubber helps organisms survive in what type of habitat or environment?
What is cold or arctic?
400
A trait that is learned due to our interactions with our enviornment.
What is bahavioral or aquired trait?
400
The man credited as the first person to study heredity.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
400
A dog retrieving a bone is an example of what kind of trait?
What is a behavioral trait?
400
An adaptation in which a normally harmless organism looks harmful to protect itself.
What is mimicry?
400
List three characteristics that a polar bear has that helps it survive in the arctic.
What is blubber, white fur, fur, strong sense of smell, sharp teeth, hibernation, or any acceptabel answer?
500
An environmental factor that can affect the growth or color of plants.
What is soil minerals, sun exposure, water availability or any appropriate response?
500
When a plant's pollen is transported to a different flower so pollination can take place.
What is cross-pollination?
500
Both parents have brown eyes, can their offspring have blue eyes?
What is yes! Two brown eyed parents implies a brown dominant gene in each parent, but they could still have the recessive gene for blue eyes. By chance, both parents could give their offspring their recessive blue eye trait.
500
The area where an animal lives, the physical characteristics of an animals environment.
What is habitat?
500
When there is not even one member of an organism left, this is called?