8th grade Science MAAP Review

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What is extinction?

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Extinction is when every organism of a species has died.

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What is heredity?

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Heredity is the passing of traits from parents to offspring.

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What is a phenotype?

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A phenotype is the observable physical characteristics of an organism, such as hair color and eye color.

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Where do earthquakes most likely occur?

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Earthquakes are most likely to occur along plate boundaries.

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What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks in birds?

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Different shaped beaks allow birds to eat the food readily available in their environment.

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What is natural selection?

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Natural selection is the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

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What is evolution?

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Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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What is a genotype?

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A genotype is the genetic constitution of an individual, representing the alleles inherited from parents.

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What are recessive traits?

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Recessive traits are traits that are only expressed when two copies of the recessive allele are present.

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What are dominant alleles?

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Dominant alleles are alleles that express their traits even when only one copy is present.