Atoms
The amount of particles in an atom.
What is 3?
This is formed by two or more atoms contained together. (They are not chemically bonded.)
What is a mixture?
The Father of Genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The Father of Evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
The building blocks of all matter.
What is an atom?
The two particles in the nucleus.
What is the proton and neutron?
This is formed by two or more atoms chemically bonding together.
What is a compound?
This was Mendel's profession.
What is a monk?
The theory that species change over time through the process of natural selection.
The islands off the coast of Ecuador where Darwin studied many unique species.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
The negative particle in the atom.
Atoms exchange this to bond chemically.
What is an electron?
The organism studied by Mendel when he was researching genetics.
What is a pea plant?
A remain or trace of an ancient organism.
What is a fossil?
The type of chemical bond where two or more atoms exchange valence electrons.
What is an ionic bond?
What is a valence electron?
The chemical bond where atoms share electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
This type of trait is written as lowercase letters.
What is a recessive trait?
The two methods of determining a fossil's age.
What are relative and radioactive dating?
The scientific name given to an organism's physical appearance. (Not its genetic make up!)
What is a phenotype?
The Father of the Atom.
Who is Democritus?
The amount of valence electrons that complete an atom's shell.
What is 8 valence electrons?
A table used to determine the likelihood of an offspring's traits.
What is a Punnett square?
The five types of fossil.
What are body, trace, mold, cast, and petrified fossils?
The probability of an offspring expressing the recessive trait if both parents are heterozygous.
What is 25%?