Natural Selection and Genetics

A trait that helps organisms to survive in a changing environment

• niche
• structure
• characteristic
• adaptation

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Survival of the Fittest and Evolution were proposed by what scientist?

• Charles Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Steven Hawking
• Isaac Newton

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Homozygous is when...

• the alleles are the same

• the alleles are different

• the alleles are absent

• the alleles are present

the genetic code for the gene

• phenotype
• genotype
• homozygous

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when you have two different genes

• heterozygous
• dominant
• homozygous

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the physical look of a trait

• phenotype
• genotype
• recessive

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shows even if only one parent passes on the gene

• recessive
• regulatory gene
• dominant

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Sex cells are produced through the process of

• mitosis
• cytokinesis
• binary fission
• meiosis

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Organisms that always produce offspring with the same traits are known as

• purebred
• hybrid
• dominant trait
• recessive trait

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Organisms that have inherited two different forms of the same trait, one from each parent

• purebred
• hybrid
• dominant trait
• recessive trait

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