7th Grade Midterm Review

Who was the Austrian monk who studied the principles of heredity in the early 1860s?

The Bible teaches that living things were created by God a few thousand years ago.

If a heterozygous plant is crossed with a homozygous recessive plant, what genotypes would the offspring have?

Replication is a stage of the cell cycle.

The most specific level of classification

A creationist believes natural selection is the means by which all creatures descended from an original common ancestor.

Darwin sailed around the world on a ship called

Cells with a nucleus are called

Darwin's explanation for the theory of natural selection says mutationts cause new traits to be formed in a population.

The theory of acquired characteristics states that organisms cannot gain new traits and pass them on to their offspring.

What are the descriptive pairs which refer to the number of cells that an organism has?

The science of sorting organisms into groups

Breathing oxygen is a characteristic of all living things.

What refers to the physical traits a living organism has?

The shape of a DNA molecule can be described as a

What cell division is necessary for sexual reproduction?

What is the section of a DNA molecule that codes for a unique protein called?

According to the cell theory, all living things are made of cells.

God's command in Genesis 1:28 to fill the earth and have dominion over it is specifically known as the Creation Mandate.

Replication results in two identical DNA molecules.

This states mutations that introduce helpful traits will be passed down as a result of natural selection.

Alleles for a dominant trait are represented with uppercase letters.

What results in the cell dividing its chromatin to produce two identical daughter cells?

The broadest level of classification

If two heterozygous Arctic foxes were to mate, what genotypes would the offspring have?

The cellular process of growth and reproduction is called the

During cytokinesis, two new cells are formed when what divides?

The process by which organisms with certain adaptations survive to pass on their traits to a greater number of offspring

What is an example of recessive alleles?

What is inherited from an organisms' parents?

According to the cell theory, cells come only from preexisiting cells.

What tool is used to determine how likely an offspring is to have a certain genotype?

Finches developing differently shaped beaks is an example of what?

In his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin described the theory of

Robert Hooke first used this term to identify the smallest working unit of an organism.

The study of life

The part of the cell that regulates what comes in and what goes out is the

An evolutionist's worldview is based on the idea that living things are results of entirely natural & random processes.

If a father is purebred (DD) and a mother is purebred (dd), what would the children be?

The study of how traits are passed from one generation to the next is called