Characteristics of Life
Natural Selection
Mitosis/DNA
Meiosis
Genetics
100
The membrane bound characteristic of life
What is cells
100
Survival allows for this
What is reproduction?
100
DNA has this structure
What is a double helix?
100
You receive this amount of chromosomes from each parent.
What is half or 23?
100
This is the set of TWO numbers that represent an organisms genes.
What is a genotype
200
To be qualified as alive, an organism must satisfy THIS many characteristics of life.
What is all of them or six
200
Advantageous traits are more likely to ______ than those with disadvantageous traits.
What is survive?
200
In interphase this happens
What is the DNA doubles
200
When a sperm and an egg meet and form a zygote
What is sexual reproduction?
200
This is the variation that you can observe of an individual
What is a phenotype?
300
You found an organism that original had three appendages. Its offspring had five appendages allowing it to better attach to the container. The increase in appendages shows this characteristic of life.
What is adapts and evolves.
300
These are the cause of natural selection
What are limited resources?
300
The process of dividing comes directly after what step?
What is anaphase or splitting?
300
When homologous chromosomes exchange portions of their chromosomes
What is crossing over?
300
If a trait has three possibilities of phenotypes, what pattern of inheritance does it most likely have
What is incomplete dominance?
400
An organism releases gas bubbles after being fed sugar. It shows this characteristic of life.
What is Obtains and uses energy
400
Natural selection is this kind of a process.
What is a PASSIVE PROCESS
400
This step happens in prophase
What is make an X (DNA forms a chromosome)?
400
This process in meiosis is why you receive different chromosomes from your siblings
What is the law of independent assortment?
400
If you cross a blue and a yellow flower and it comes out green. What kind of dominance is this?
Incomplete Dominance
500
An organism changes color while you watch it. This demonstrates this characteristic of life
What is INTERACT AND REACT TO THE ENVIRONMENT
500
This is the scientist who established the current theory of natural selection in the 1800s.
Who is Charles Darwin
500
Mitosis creates these kind of cells.
What are identical body (somatic)cells?
500
What process caused meiosis to become more common than asexual reproduction
What is natural selection?
500
Does just 1 gene code for height or do multiple genes?
Multiple genes