Central Dogma
Genetics
Terminology
The Bird is the Word
The Peppered Moth
100

There are 20 of these in the human body, which form the primary structure of proteins

What are amino acids?

100

This monk is known as the father of genetics.

Who was Gregor Mendel?

100

The changes in allele frequencies in a population over time is called this

What is microevolution?

100

Finches on the Galapagos Islands are an excellent example of this process of adapting and filling all available niches

What is adaptive radiation?

100

This fungus-type organism is the real reason why trees in England are light colored

What is lichen?

200

DNA is this into RNA

What is translated?

200

This simple graph is used to understand dominance patterns. 

What is a Punnett Square?

200

This is the process occurring when populations get very small and the allele frequencies start to fluctuate randomly

What is genetic drift?

200

The useless wings of an emu can be used as an example of this

What is a vestigial structure?

200

After the Industrial Revolution and before clean air standards were enacted, white moths suffered lower fitness than black moths due to this selective pressure

What is predation/birds?

300

The five nucleotide types are cytosine, adenine, guanine, uracil, and this

What is thymine?

300

If a trait is masked by another, and an organism needs both copy of the allele to express it, that is called this

What is recessive?

300

This is the process occurring when a population gets very small due to a catastrophic event, and the allele variation is severely decreased for future generations

What is a bottleneck?

300

If an emu, a species with small, useless wings, was hatched and had large functioning wings, that would be an example of this 

What is atavism?

300

Seen as part 1 in this graph, this is the mode of selection that occurred when the melanistic form of moth started increasing in the population. 

What is directional selection?

400

The vast majority of DNA mutations are this

What is silent?

400

An organism that has two copies for each chromosome, one from mom and one from dad, is called this 

What is diploid?

400

This is the process occurring when humans are the selective pressures on a population, typically of domesticated animals or crops

What is artificial selection?

400

Penguins and hummingbirds do not look alike at all. However, they are relatively closely related. This is an example of this type of evolution

What is divergent?

400

The burning of this type of fossil fuel caused soot to be deposited on all surfaces near industrial areas. 

What is coal?

500

A region of DNA that once coded for a protein but is no longer functional is called this

What is a pseudogene?

500

The character of a gene (i.e., yellow pea color or green pea color) is called this

What is an allele?

500

The theory of neutral evolution is based upon the accumulation of these

What are silent mutations?

500

Like most animal species on the planet, except for primates and guinea pigs, birds can make this important molecule, which enables it to fight disease, such as scurvy

What is vitamin C?

500

Kettlewell's experiments tracking the light and dark morphs of the peppered moth are an excellent example of this theory, first outlined by Charles Darwin

What is natural selection?