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Using Evolution
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This is a chart that can help keep track of which family members have a given trait.
What is Pedigree Chart
100
An organism with exactly the same genes as the organism it was produced from
What is Clone
100
What are two uses of DNA technology?
Answers vary
100
A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring
What is Species
100
The millions of fossils that have been collected
What is Fossil Record
200
This is a picture of all the chromosomes in a cell
What is Karyotype
200
The process of selecting organisms with desired traits to be parents of the next generation
What is Selective Breeding
200
This was created to help free prisoners with wrongful convictions
What is Innocence Project
200
The beak shapes of the different finches Darwin studied are an example of
What is Adaptation
200
Scientists infer that species with similar body structures and development patterns have a common
What is Ancestor
300
This genetic disorder causes blood to clot poorly
What is Hemophilia
300
In this process genes from one organism are transferred into the genes of another organism
What is Genetic Engineering
300
This is an organism's full set of DNA
What is genome
300
This is the name of Charles Darwin's book
What is The Origin of Species
300

What is Homologous structures?

Similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor.

400
This genetic disorder causes thick mucus to build up in the lungs and intestines
What is Cystic Fibrosis
400
This process inserts copies of a gene directly into a person's cells
What is Gene Therapy
400
This is a pattern created from fragments of a person's DNA
What is DNA Fingerprint
400
This is the process in which individuals that are better adapted are more likely to survive and reproduce
What is Natural Selection
400
What are three clues that provide evidence for evolution?
What is Fossils, patterns of early development, similar body structure, similarities in DNA, and protein structure
500
This genetic disorder causes the hemoglobin to become abnormal
What is Sickle Cell Disease
500
What are the two methods for selective breeding?
What are inbreeding and hybridization
500
This law makes it illegal for companies to discriminate people based on their genetic information
What is Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
500
What is a person who observes and studies the natural world called
What is Naturalist
500

what is Artificial Selection?

In artificial selection, only the organisms with a desired characteristic are bred.