Combined: Natural Selection, Adaptation, and Evolution + Genetics and Mutations

Question 1

The process of biological change over a period of time is called _____.

Accepted Answer

evolution

Question 2

What would NOT represent an inherited trait for an orange tree?

Accepted Answer

Where it grows

Question 3

If all the offspring were bb, what was the genotype of each parent?

Accepted Answer

bb and bb

Question 4

The picture is an example of an animal doing what?

Accepted Answer

Mimicry

Question 5

Which of the following are examples of genotypes of an organism?

Accepted Answer

Bb, TT

Question 6

The physical characteristics or appearance of an organism is referred to as its

Accepted Answer

phenotype

Question 7

Who is often referred to as the "Father of Genetics"?

Accepted Answer

Gregor Mendel

Question 8

Of the traits listed, which are inherited?

Accepted Answer

The color of a dog's fur, eye color

Question 9

How does natural selection occur? Choose any that apply.

Accepted Answer

favorable adaptations are selected and increase over time, individuals in populations are not exactly alike, Most offspring are produced than can survive

Question 10

White (W) is dominant over purple (w). Of the offspring, how many squares represent the white?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 11

How does a lizard's camouflage help it survive?

Accepted Answer

harder to see by predators

Question 12

What does heterozygous mean?

Accepted Answer

2 different alleles for the same trait

Question 13

Which is a cause for extinction?

Accepted Answer

rapid environmental changes, introduction of a predator, failure to adapt to the environment

Question 14

Different choices of the same gene are called

Accepted Answer

alleles

Question 15

____ occurs when the environment changes and the adaptations hurt the species

Accepted Answer

extinction

Question 16

Brown (B) fur is dominant over white fur (b). Homozygous brown crosses with homozygous white...

Accepted Answer

100 % heterozygous

Question 17

If free, unattached ear lobes (L) are dominant over attached ear lobes (l) what is the phenotype of Ll?

Accepted Answer

free ear lobes

Question 18

What did Darwin help to explain?

Accepted Answer

How species change over time

Question 19

In a genotype, what does the captial letter represent?

Accepted Answer

The dominant trait

Question 20

Isolation occurs when a population becomes _____ by an event.

Accepted Answer

Divided

Question 21

What is an inherited trait that increases an organisms chance of surviving and reproducing?

Accepted Answer

adaptaion

Question 22

In pea plants, tall is dominant. If 2 heterozygous plants cross, the offspring will be

Accepted Answer

will be 75% tall, 25% short

Question 23

The process where organisms with favorable mutations are tested in an environment and then survive is

Accepted Answer

natural selection

Question 24

According to Darwin, why did the Galapagos finches have different beaks?

Accepted Answer

Feeding habits and diet

Question 25

Random _____ in genes produce variations of traits in a population.

Accepted Answer

mutations

Question 26

Which of the following are examples of phenotypes of an organism?

Accepted Answer

red hair, blue eyes

Question 27

Black fur(B)is dominant over white fur(b). If a heterozygous black cat mated with a white cat

Accepted Answer

50 % Bb and 50% would have bb.

Question 28

1. Who is the English naturalist who studied birds and created an evolution theory

Accepted Answer

Charles Darwin

Question 29

Choose the statement that is NOT part of Darwin's theory of evolution?

Accepted Answer

extinction causes evolution

Question 30

What is the number one goal of an organism?

Accepted Answer

Survive and reproduce

Combined: Natural Selection, Adaptation, and Evolution + Genetics and Mutations

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Combined: Natural Selection, Adaptation, and Evolution + Genetics and Mutations

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