Science Final

Selective Breeding

• practice of breeding animal or plants for desired traits

• breeding plants for flowers

• breeding only cats

What is the historical sequence of life indicated by fossils?

• Fossil

• Fossil Record

• decomposition

What is the characteristic that improves an species ability to survive and reproduce?

• speciation

• trait

• adaptation

• selective

Where a certain group is better adapted to their environment and are able to reproduce and survive better than a less well adapted group

• Evolution

• selective breeding

• Pedigree

• Natural Selection

Speciation

• formation of a new species because of evolution

• historical sequence of life

• change in the base sequence of a gene

Generation Time

• One set of instructions for a trait

• time between birth of one generation and birth of the next generation

• group of organisms that are closely related

What are the organism that eats other organisms

• Consumer

• predator

• decomposition

• Social behavior

Hibernation

• biological daily cycle

• Period of inactivity and lowered body temperature that happens in the summer

• Period of inactivity and lowered body temperature that happens in the winter

Social Behavior

• behavior that has been learned from experience

• inherited behavior that does not depend on the environment

• interaction between animals of the same species

Embryo

• early stage of development in an animal or plant

• organism that eats all of another organism

• organism that eats organic matter