Definition#1
All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively
What is a generation
The definition of adaptation
What is any heritable trait that helps and organism?
Something that is NOT an example of a camouflage
A. a snake blending into its environment. B. Wearing black and it being dark
A. a snake blending into its environment
True or False:
no gene is the exact same
What is false?
True or false:
if blue eyes are recessive in the mom and brown eyes are dominate in the dad their kid will have brown eyes
What is true?
The basic unit of heredity that occupies a specific location on a chromosome
What are genes?
The definition of evolution
What is the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations?
A feature or quality typically belonging to a person place or thing and serving to identify it
What is a characteristic?
What a dominate gene looks like on a punnet square using the example of h
What is HH?
A person who was someone’s family in past times
What is an ancestor?
A different or distant form or version of something
What is variation?
The identification by humans of desirable traits in plants and animals
What is artificial selection?
This is NOT an example of an adaptation
A. Having a long neck. B. Putting a coat on
What is having a long neck?
A living thing made up of one or more cell and able to carry on the activities of life
What is an organism?
Living long enough to be able to reproduce
What is survival of the fittest?
A genetic change that causes new and different characteristics
What is a mutation?
the process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change
What is natural selection?
The sum of all biological processes by which particular characteristics are transmitted from parents to their offspring
What is heredity?
The genetic makeup of an organism
What is a genotype?
The person who discovered natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
The change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and relies on the process of natural selection
What is a mutation?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
What is DNA?
An observable trait
What is a phenotype?
Fill in the blank:
The theory of evolution is based on the idea that all _______ are retaliated and gradually change over time.
What are species?
A helpful tool that helps to predict the variations and probabilities that can come from cross breeding
What is the purpose of a punnet square?