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Genetics

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Structural Adaptation   bird's beak shape, coloration, seed structure based on dispersal  
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Behavioral Adaptation   Running from predator, hibernation, Aestivation, playing possum  
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Genetic Trait   can be changed by mutation (which leads to evolution), selective breeding, and natural selection  
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Genes   Genetic traits are formed by the environment and ____  
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Charles Darwin   __ was an English scientist of hte 1800's. His job on the Beagle was to learn as much as he could about the living things he saw on the voyage.  
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Food, water, living space   When members of a species compete, what do they compete for?  
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Species   A(n) ___ is a group of similar organisms that can mate with one another and produce fertile offspring  
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Adaptation   A(n) ___ is a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce  
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Theory   A scientific ___ is a well- tested concept that explains a wide range of observations.  
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Natural Selection   The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce is called ___  
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Variation   That some newly hatched turtles can swim faster than others of the same species is evidence of ___ within the species.  
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Segregation   Each parent passing only one allele for a trait to it's offspring is known as ___  
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Dominant   A trait seen in each gereration is ___  
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Pea   Mendel worked with ___ plants to learn about heredity.  
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Adaptions   Darwin's theory proposes that changes happen from generation to generation from ___ of an organism to the environment  
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External   The temperature in which an organism lives is an example of a(n) ___ environmental influence  
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Extinction   Sometimes, ___ occurs because of the destrution of a habitat  
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Offspring   The outcome of 2 parents reproducing is an ___  
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Internal   examples of __: mutation, genotype  
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External   examples of __: temperature, sunlight, amount of food  
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Alfred Russell Wallace   theory: evolution by natural selection  
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Gregor Mendel   theory: principle of dominance  
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Reginald C. Punnett   theory: Punnett squares  
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Mendel's law   alleles for 1 trait do not have an affect on how alleles fora another trait are inherited  
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Traits   features an organism inherits from its parents  
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Dominant   these alleles show their effect on the phenotype whenever they are present in the genotype  
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Phenootype   combination of actual genetic makeup and the environmental effect on that makeup  
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Genotype   an organism's genetic makeup  
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genetics   science of heredity  
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extinction   the demise of an entire species  
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mutation   change in DNA that forms new alleles  
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evolution   change in the genetics of a species over time  
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natual selection   organisms that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce at a greater rate than organisms that are not  
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adaptive radiation   production of several specties from one ancestral species is called __  
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What happens when a species overproduce offspring?   food and other resources are limited so many individuals of a species will not survive to reproduce  
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Suppose a variation makes an individual member of a species better adapted to its environment, how might that variation affect the individual's reproduction?   If the variation makes the individual member better adapted the environment, then it will more likely survive to reproduce offspring.  
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How does the environment "select" organisms?   The environment "selects" organisms that are better adaptedto their environment thus have a better chance to survive and reproduce.  
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How do helpful variations accumulate in a species over time?   Helpful variations accumulate through natural selection, as the organisms that are better adapted th their environment reproduce offspring with the same variations.  
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Why can only the traits controlled by genes be acted upon by natural selection?   Only genes are passed from parents to their offspring.  
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How might the isolation of a group result in a new species?   If a group is isolated from the rest of the species long enough to evolve different traits, a new specties could evolve.  
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