Plant & Animal Adaptations
Students visiting the zoo observe a male peacock spreading his feathers in the presence of a female peacock. This behavior most likely helps the peacock ---
What is attract a mate?
Which reproductive process produces offspring relatively quickly?
What is asexual reproduction?
L = Long hair & l = short hair. What is the genotype(s) of an individual with the dominant phenotype?
What is LL or Ll?
Which process ends in the creation of 4 different daughter cells?
What is meiosis?
A paper catches on fire and burns, is this representing a physical or chemical property of matter?
What is a change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment?
What is an adaptation?
Which process (sexual or asexual reproduction) has high genetic diversity within their offspring?
What is sexual reproduction?
A female with a brown hair phenotype has the genotype BB. This female mate with a male with a white phenotype. What is the genotype of the male?
What is bb?
Which process is used for growth and repair in body cells?
What is mitosis?
Using the periodic table, what is the name of the element with the symbol Na?
What is sodium?
Is a bear's thick layer of fat underneath his fur coat a structural or behavioral adaptation?
What is a structural adaptation?
B = Brown Eyes, b = blue eyes
What is the genotypic ratio of the offspring of one homozygous dominant parent and one heterozygous parent mating?
What is 4:0?
Which process provides only half the genetic information to its offspring?
What is meiosis?
Which organelle produces proteins for the cells to use for energy?
What are the ribosomes?
Is a cat hissing to protect its young a structural or behavioral adaptation?
What is a behavioral adaptation?
What is the main disadvantage of sexual reproduction?
What is, it takes a long time to find a mate?
A = Big arms, a = small arms
A heterozygous female and male with small arms mate. What is the probability that the offspring would have small arms?
What is 50%?
Which process creates genetically identical offspring?
What is mitosis?
What are the circulatory and respiratory systems?
A rattlesnake has a rattle on the end of its tail to scare off predators. Is this a structural or behavioral adaptation?
What is the main similarity between asexual and sexual reproduction?
What is they both create new offspring?
T = Tail, t = No tail
What is the phenotypic ratio of the offspring of two heterozygous parents mating?
What is 3:1?
What is crossing over? Which process does it happen in?
What is when parts of parent DNA swap pieces of their chromosomes to create genetic diversity within a species? What happens during mitosis?
What is the cell membrane?