Natural Selection
Why have sharks adapted to be darker on the top and lighter on their bellies?
The white underside sharks are better camouflaged from their prey and are more likely to survive.
What does it mean to be prokaryotic?
No nucleus
Which 2 kingdoms do not have a nucleus?
Eubacteria, Archaebacteria
How many parent are needed for asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction?
1 and 2
What is the difference between natural and artificial selection?
Nature decides who is best adapted. Artificial humans breed animals for certain traits
What do plants and animals have in common?
Both eukaryotes and multicellular
Which kingdom is yeast apart of?
Fungi
What are the offspring like in asexual reproduction and what are 2 advantages to this form of reproduction?
Identical
Less time and energy
Which kind of bird beak would be best adapted for large, tough, hard seeds?
Bigger bird beak
Which kingdoms are autotrophs?
Plants, protist, archaebacteria, and Eubacteria
Which 4 kingdoms are eukaryotes?
Protist, fungi, plants, animals
What is an advantage of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction?
It makes species more able to adapt to environmental changes.
In some locations, populations of these fish have changed over generations to become less vibrant in color and less spotted. Why did this change occur?
Blend into their environment
Organisms in the fungi kingdom are______ because they have a ________ in their cells.
eukaryotes, nucleus
Which domain are plants and animals apart of?
Eukarya
What are the types of asexual reproduction?
Budding, binary fission, fragmentation
Charles Darwin was a famous scientist. He studied birds called finches that live on the Galapagos Islands. He discovered that the finches had beaks with different shapes, depending on where they lived. Darwin's studies of the finches resulted in what scientific concept?
Animals with useful traits pass them along to their offspring
What is the most specific group an organism can belong to?
Species
Extremophiles such as thermophiles are found in which kingdom?
Archaebacteria
What is true about the DNA of cells that reproduce by binary fission?
Their DNA is identical