Staar Biology

In mitosis, the two resulting cells are

• different from the starting cell and identical to each other.

• different from the starting cell and different from each other.

• identical to the starting cell and different from each other.

• identical to the starting cell and identical to each other.

What is the order of succession shown in this figure?

• A, B, C, D

• B, A, D, C

• C, D, A, B

• D, A, B, C

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What is the probability of cloven hooves in the offspring of parents that are heterozygous for the trait?

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

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Put the following stages of mitosis in order: anaphase, prophase, metaphase, and telophase.

• prophase, metaphase, telophase, anaphase

• prophase, anaphase, metaphase, telophase

• prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase

• prophase, telophase, metaphase, anaphase

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Which of the following is a phenotype?

• Aa

• red hair

• heterozygous genes

• mutated DNA

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G = green, g = yellow
The genotype for a yellow plant is...

• GG

• Gg

• gg

• all of the choices result in yellow

Natural selection is

• survival of the fittest

• humans change

• two species are the same

• more animals survive

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What is a change in an organism that allows for it to survive in its environment?

• homologous

• vestigial

• variation

• adaptation

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What is a producer?

• an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms

• an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food

• an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• an organism that uses chemical energy to make its own food

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succession that occurs in an area with no soil

• ecological succession 

• primary succession 

• secondary succession

• pioneer speciles