Evolution
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Genotype/Phenotype
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100

How do fossils provide evidence for evolution?

Fossils provide a visual look of how organisms have changed over time based on their resources and environments.

100

What is the scientific name of this alien?

Alienus hairicus

100

What is the difference between a dominant and recessive trait?

Dominant traits over power recessive traits. Dominant traits are expressed when present.

100

A homozygous dominant yellow fish mated with a purple fish. What are the chances that they will have a purple fish? 

0% 

100

What is a hotdog on a stick called?

A corndog.

200

How do aggressive organism behaviors increase fitness?

Can scare away predators, asserts dominance, protects themselves.

200

Which minion is this? 

Tim

200

What blood type is ii?

Type O

200

The father is type AB blood, and the mother is type A heterozygous. What is the likelihood that their offspring will have type A blood? 

50% Type A

200

Name a dinosaur that is not a T-rex.

Answers vary

300

Why did finches develop different beaks?

Their beaks adapted to match the food sources available on their island.

300

What shape of pasta is this? 

Rotelle

300

Determine if the genotype is heterozygous, homozygous dominant, or homozygous recessive.

Gg__________   gg___________

Gg: heterozygous

gg: homozygous recessive

300

In laboratory mice, gray coat color (G) is dominant over albino coat color (g).

What is the probability of getting gray offspring if you cross a female Gg with a male gg?

50% gray offspring

300

What is 11x11?

121

400

Answer the following questions about a starfish. 

Bilateral or radial symmetry?

Is cephalization present?

Do they have a backbone?

Radial symmetry, absent, no.

400

What is the scientific name of the sea star?

Granular sea star

400

Determine the phenotype based on the genotype.

Blue scales are dominant to yellow scales. 

Blue scales:______

Yellow scale:_______

Blue scales: BB/Bb

Yellow scales: bb

400

Ralph has type B blood and his wife is type A. They are very shocked to hear that they had a baby with type O blood and think their baby may have been switched. Is the baby theirs? Explain.

The baby is theirs. Both parents can be heterozygous for type A and B, giving a 25% chance of having a child with type O blood.

400

What is the rarest M&M color?

Brown

500

If a shark has bilateral symmetry, segmentation, cephalization, 3 germ layers, and a backbone, what phylum is it a part of?

 

A) Echinoderm

B) Annelids

C) Chordates

D) Arthropods

C) Chordates

500

What kind of shell is this?

Moon Snail

500

What is the genotype of IV-2?

AA (homozyogous dominant)

500

In the 1950’s, a young woman sued film star Charlie Chaplin for parental support of her illegitimate child. Charlie Chaplin’s blood type was already on record as type AB. The mother of the child had type A and her son had type O.

  • The judge ruled in favor of the mother and ordered Charlie to pay child support. Was the judge correct in his decisions based on blood typing evidence? Explain why or why not?

He is not the father because he has no way of donating a "i" to create an O blood type.

500

Name an animal that starts with the letter K that's not a koala.

Kangaroo, Komodo Dragon, Killer Whale