Toothpick Fish, Incomplete Dominance & Natural Selection

Toothpick Fish...Which color fish skin was the most dominant over all the others?

• Green

• Yellow

• Red

• Orange

Toothpick Fish...Which color skin disappeared slowly over many generations?

• Green

• Yellow

• Red

• Orange

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Toothpick Fish...which color skin disappeared most quickly?

• Green

• Yellow

• Red

• Orange

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Toothpick fish...What was the underlying cause of the genes disappearing from the gene pool?

• Changes in climate

• Changes in the environment

• Predation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Toothpick fish...What caused one color of fish to be more favorable for the environment over another color?

• The climate

• The color of the parent fish

• The color of the offspring fish

• The color of the environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Toothpick fish...How is it possible that an ORANGE offspring can be born from GREEN parents?

• Both parents carry the orange allele

• Both parents carry an allele for green skin

• Both parents carry an allele for Red skin

• Both parents carry and allele for red and/or yellow skin.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Incomplete dominance is when neither allele is dominant and they share their dominance.

• True

• False

Based on the "Toothpick Fish" simulation, being heterozygous for a trait can be helpful in the survival of your species.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Zoos could help increase the population of threatened and endangered species by...

• breeding same-specied animals within their own zoo.

• breeding same-specied animals between zoos world wide.

• not breeding any of the animals they have.

• enforcing hunting laws.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Fish hatcheries tend to include genetically diverse fish, which helps them survive in new environments.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4