Genetics
Evolution
Biomes
Relationships
Ecological Principles
100

A version of a gene. A good example is brown or white fur color.

What is an allele?

100

These two naturalists had competing theories of evolution.

Who are Lamarck and Darwin?

100

This biome has frozen soil called permafrost and is known as the cold cousin of the desert.

What is the tundra?

100

A cow eating grass is this type of relationship.

What is predation?

100

A plant can also be referred to as this trophic term.

What is a producer?

200
Contains two different alleles.

What is heterozygous?

200

This force of evolution occurs due to shrinking populations, often after a natural disaster.

What is genetic drift?

200

This biome gets a lot of rain and maintains a fairly high temperature throughout the year.

What is a tropical rainforest?

200

This type of relationship often involves one organism sucking blood or taking away another organism's nutrients.

What is parasitism?

200

This type of graph measures the monthly temperature and climate of a certain area.

What is a climate graph?

300

This chart is used to predict all possible genotypes of a cross between two parents.

What is a Punnett square?

300

An organism's ability to survive and reproduce.

What is fitness?

300

Located primarily in California, this biome is known as "scrub land."

What is the chaparral?

300

In this relationship type, one organism benefits and the other neither benefits nor is harmed.

What is commensalism?

300

A representation of energy in an ecosystem, this diagram is made up of multiple food chains.

What is a food web?

400

The physical characteristics of an individual that results from its genotype.

What is phenotype?

400

Coming from the Greek for "same fatherland," this type of speciation occurs within populations, NOT due to geographic isolation.

What is sympatric speciation?

400

Beloit, Wisconsin is located in this biome.

What is temperature deciduous forest?

400

A relationship in which both organisms benefit.

What is mutualism?

400

Every food chain/web, and energy pyramid starts with this.

What is the sun?

500
In dogs, a curly tail is dominant (C) and a straight tail is recessive (c). A homozygous curly tailed dog mates with a straight tailed dog. What are the possible genotypes of the puppies?

What is 100% Cc

500
An example being the human coccyx, these structures have lost most or all of their ancestral function and are usually reduced in size.

What are vestigial structures?

500

Name one threat that the temperate rainforest is facing.

What is pollution, urban development, habitat loss, deforestation, etc.?

500

Please provide an example of a parasitic relationship.

What is ________

500

In the process of biomagnification, this trophic level will have the highest concentration of the toxin.

What is apex predator/tertiary consumer?