Evolution, Whales, Woolyboogers (+Pedigrees) 2018

In the second generation-how many people are carriers of the trait?

• 2
• 3
• 5
• 6

What do we use pedigrees for?

• To look at families
• To make determinations about the offspring
• To track traits in families
• Nothing

If this pedigree shows a recessive disorder, what MUST the genotype of individual II-3 be?

• HH
• Hh
• hh
• None of the above

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-4

The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment 

• diversity.
• evolution
• fitness

Moths in England changed color from light to dark because...

• they realized it was better to be dark.
• the light colored moths couldn't find food.
• the light colored moths did not have the adaptation that allowed it to survive and reproduce.

Whales were originally ____dwelling animals. After millions of years, they were ____dwelling animals. 

• water, land
• water, water
• land, land
• land, water

Because a whale was able to adapt to it's environment, it was able to get more food and not compete with other organisms for the food. 

• true
• false

Whales have _____ and can also have___ blowholes.

• gills; one
• gills; two
• lungs; one
• lungs; one or two

The foreman magnum ( opening in the skull for the spinal cord) is located___on the skull for earlier hominids.

• higher
• lower
• more to the right
• more to the left