Natural Selection
It is helpful for moths living on dark trees to be this color
What is brown/black?
Your role in this project
What is an intern?
The treatment you are developing will fight this disease
What is malaria?
A specific characteristic of an individual organism
What is a trait?
A random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
What is mutation?
A blowfish is able to puff itself into a round, spiky ball when a predator approaches. This is an example of...
What is an adaptive trait?
Nets and repellents can be used to keep these away
What are mosquitoes?
By doing this, you can help treat more people in areas of poverty
What is reducing cost?
A trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
What is a non-adaptive trait?
An instruction for making a protein molecule (found on chromosome)
What is a gene?
This would be an adaptive trait in a cold region
What is thick fur/fat?
Organisms that live in or on another organism and cause harm to them
What is a parasite?
Plasmodium become harder to kill due to this trait
What is high drug resistance?
Standards by which something may be judged
What is criteria?
A type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms.
What is a protein molecule?
Adaptive traits help organisms to do this
What is survive and/or reproduce?
A disease caused by a tiny organism called Plasmodium
What is malaria?
Patients can feel more comfortable after treatment because of this
What is reducing side effects?
The number of individuals with each trait in a population
What is distribution?
A drug or medicine that kills the parasites that cause malaria
What is an antimalarial?
This man is known for his theories of natural selection and evolution
Who is (Charles) Darwin?
In these places, malaria is a major problem (name at least one)
What is Africa/Southeast Asia/South America?
You must do this in order to kill those pesky Plasmodium cells
What is reduce drug resistance?
Something in the environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving
What is selection pressure?
The quality of preventing or fighting against something
What is resistance?