Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Adaptations
Acquired Traits/Inherited Traits
100

Characteristic that an organism develops after it is born:

A. Learned B. Acquired Trait C. DNA D. Heredity

What is an acquired trait?

100

A change in the genes of an organism.

A. Learned B. Nucleotide C. Mutation D. Camouflage

What is a mutation?

100

Organism that has two different genes for the same trait.

A. Hybridization B. Hybrid C. Selective Breeding D. Inbreeding

What is a hybrid?

100

The three examples of Adaptations.

A. Camouflage, Warning Coloration, Acquired Trait

B. Camouflage, Warning Coloration, Mimicry

C. Mimicry, Inherited Traits, Acquired Traits

D. Warning Coloration, Mutagens, Desirable Traits

What is camouflage, warning coloration, and mimicry?

100

Cystic Fibrosis is an example of what?

A. Inherited Trait B. Acquired Trait C. Inherited Disease D. Selective Breeding

What is an inherited disease?

200

Short, thick coil of DNA:

A. Mutation B. Adaptation C. Chromosome D. Mimicry

What is a chromosome?

200

A basic structural unit of DNA.

A. Nucleotide B. Dominant C. Recessive D. Hybrid

What is a nucleotide?

200

Describes a trait that is not expressed when an organism receives genes for two different forms of a trait.

A. Recessive B. Dominant C. Gene D. Acquired trait

What is recessive?

200

The ability to blend into their surroundings.

A. Warning Coloration B. Camouflage C. Mimicry D. Adaptation

What is camouflage?

200

One trait that an organism can acquire.

A. eye color B. hair color C. freckles D. learning how to talk

learning how to talk

300

A molecule found in the nucleus of a cell and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transfer of genetic information

A. Asexual reproduction B. Sexual reproduction C. gene D. DNA

What is DNA?

300

A change in a characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.

A. Mimicry B. Adaptation C. Camouflage D. Mimicry

What is an adaptation?

300

Practice of breeding organism to get offspring with useful traits.

What is selective breeding?

300

Bright colors often indicate that an organism is poisonous.

A. Warning coloration B. Mutation C. Adaptation D. Camouflage


What is warning coloration?

300

One trait an organism can inherit.

A. Learning how to play a sport B. Dimples C. Learning how to read D. Learning how to talk

What are dimples?

400

A short segment of DNA that determines an organism's inherited traits.

A. Warning Coloration B. Selective Breeding C. Gene D. Hybridization

What is a gene?

400

Describes a trait that is expressed when an organism receives genes for two different forms of a trait.

A. Recessive B. Dominant C. Pollen D. Cystic Fibrosis

What is dominant?

400

Production of offspring by the union of male and female gametes.

A. Muscular Dystrophy B. Sexual Reproduction C. Inherited Traits D. Acquired Traits

What is sexual reproduction?

400

The ability to look like another species.

A. Adaptations B. Mutations. C. Mimicry D. Warning coloration

What is mimicry?

400

One example of selective breeding.

A. Adaptation B. Hybridization C. Hybrid D. Gene

Hybridization

500

Genetic transfer of characteristics from parent to offspring.

A. Heredity B. Inbreeding C. Environmental D. Manipulated

What is heredity?

500

Production of offspring from only one parent cell.

A. Sexual Reproduction B. Sickle Cell Anemia C. Asexual Reproduction D. Hemophilia

What is asexual reproduction?

500

An example of an environmental trait.


A. learning how to ride a bike B. learning how to talk C. A flamingo is pink because it eats pink food. D. controlling the shape and design of a plant

A flamingo is pink because it eats pink food.

500

This is a type of an adaptation.

A. The king snake mimicking the poisonous snake. B. Resulting in a desirable trait  C. Decrease an organism's chances for survival. D. Learning how to ride a bike

The king snake mimicking the poisonous snake.

500

An example of a manipulated trait.


A. Learning how to ride a bike B. Controlling the shape and design of a plant C. A flamingo is pink because it eats pink food D. Learning how to walk


Controlling the shape and design of a plant