Vocab
What is genetics?
What is the study of heredity?
What type of offspring is produced?
Diverse offspring
What type of offspring is produced?
Uniform offspring
What are the examples of organisms that have undergone natural selection?
Dogs, giraffe, and bugs
What are examples of organisms that have undergone selective breeding?
Corn, dogs, chickens
What is natural selection?
The process by which organisms that are most suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully.
What is diverse offsrping?
Offspring that is genetically different from parent
What is uniform offspring?
offspring that is genetically identical to parent
What is survival to reproduce most sucessfully
"Survival of the fittest"
What is the purpose of selective breeding?
Create animals with desirable traits
What is an adaptation?
A change in structure, function, or behavior by which a species or individual improves its chance of survival in a specific environment.
Why can flowers reproduce through sexual reproduction?
Because they have both male (sperm) and female (egg) parts.
What are the three types of asexual reproduction?
Budding, spores, and binary fission.
What animals did Charles Darwin observe?
Finches
Occur when a beneficial variation is intended by all members of a population
Adaptation
What is selective breeding?
is the process of breeding plants and animals for particular traits.
What are the four disadvantages of sexual reprduction?
only 1/2 can reproduce, takes two, energy, no guarantee.
What are the four advantages of asexual reproduction?
only takes one, guarantee offspring, several offspring, less steps.
What is the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in its enviroment is called?
Fitness
What is domestication?
the process whereby a population of animals or plants, through a process of artificial selection, is changed at the genetic level, accentuating traits desired by humans.
What is a habitat?
where a population of organisms live or thrive.
What are the four advantages of sexual reproduction?
More variation, evolution, characteristics/triats, fewer diseases spread
What are the four disadvantages of asexual offspring?
No variation, identical offspring, environmental changes, competition.
What are the four rules of natural selection?
Variability, competition, adaptation, selective pressures.