How Traits Change

What is RNA?

• Deoxyribonucleic Acid

• Ribonucleic Acid

What would be the benefit of a butterfly having a spot that looked like an owl's eye?

• It can blend in better to the environment

• It will allow it to become more of a predator itself

• It will become friends with the owls

• It might look more like a predator therefore scaring off other potential predators

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When a cat has two different colored eyes, is that due to a mutation?

• Yes

• No

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When a person, or animal has two different colored eyes it is called...

• Heterochromia

• Pupilochromia

• Heterocoloria

• Pupilocoloria

Why would being a white alligator be considered as having a bad mutation?

• Can't hide from other predators

• Can't hide from potential prey

• Might be targeted or outcast from its own species group

• All of the above

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DNA provides the chemical code for an organisms __________ material.

• Cellular

• Genetic

• Chromosome

• Nuclear

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A gene is...

• A segment of chromosome in a cell

• A segment of RNA in a ribosome

• A segment of DNA on a chromosome

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Strands of DNA are tightly coiled, like a phone cord or spring, so that more genes can fit into a small space.

• False

• True

A DNA strand takes on what kind of shape?

• A twisted tree

• A twisted ladder

• A twisted pencil

• A twisted broom

The structure of DNA is referred to as a single helix.

• True

• False