Vocabulary
This is the definition of environment.
What is everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism?
This is how you would describe the variation in the population at generation 50 on page 35.
What is there is no variation in the color trait for this population by generation 50?
Offspring inherit their traits from _______.
What is their parents?
Mutations occur because...
Claim 1: random changes to instructions in DNA occur.
Claim 2: because pressures from the environment make populations need them.
What is Claim 1?
More potential energy enters a system of repelling magnets as you move them ______ to one another.
What is "closer"?
This is the definition for cause.
What is an event or process that leads to a result or change.
Populations change over time because:
Claim 1: They need/want to adapt in order to survive.
Claim 2: Environments they live in cause them to a redistribution of traits through selective pressures.
What is claim 2
This is the percentage of genes an offspring gets from each parent.
What is 50%?
Mutations will _______ lead to an adaptive trait.
A.) Very rarely
B.) Always
C.) Never
D.) Potential Energy
What is A?
This is the type of light wave with the shortest wavelength.
What are Gamma waves?
This is the definition for adaptive trait.
What is a trait that will make it more likely for an individual to survive in their environment.
In an environment with no snakes, this is how you would describe the poison trait of a rough skinned newt with a high level of poison.
What is non-adaptive or not adaptive or a regular trait?
When compared to individuals in their population with adaptive traits, individuals with non adaptive traits are less likely to __________
What to survive or pass down their traits?
The mutation that led to lobsters appearing blue is an example of a ________ trait because the appearance of this new trait did not become more or less common over time.
a.) Adaptive
b.) Non-adaptive
c.) none of the above
What is option C?
This is the definition of a dependent variable.
This is the variable that is measured or observed, and its value is believed to be influenced by the independent variable.
This is the definition for gene.
What is an instruction for making a protein molecule?
In this ostrilope population ______ is a adaptive trait. Go to Page 35.
What is being yellow (level 7)?
On page 34 there are more green than brown dragonflies because ________
What is more green dragonflies survived longer and passed down their traits, so the green trait became more common over time? Not because the green dragonflies age slower than other dragonflies?
If a mutation leads to a non-adaptive trait, this mutated trait will become ______ common in a population over time.
What is "less"?
This is the moon phase that occurs between the first quarter moon and and full moon phases.
What is waxing gibbous?
This is a protein molecule.
What is a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms?
This is the mutated trait in the rough skinned newt population on Page 115.
What is poison level 10?
B2B1 is a _______ that codes for the trait for having many leg bristles in a spider.
What is a gene version?
On page 111 a mutation leads to a _____ trait appearing in the eelpout population between Time 1 and Time 2. This new trait became _____ common between Time 2 and Time 3.
What is "non-adaptive"?
What is "less"?
Newton's ____ law states: The force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration.
What is 2nd?