Africa Storyline Part 1

Who would be the most fit animal biologically?

• The one who is the largest and strongest member of the group.

• The one who is the fastest member of the group

• The one who has many offspring that survived.

• The one who mated with the most females.

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The area in which an organism naturally lives is its

• niche

• habitat

• adaptation

• community

Rabbits are the __________ of foxes.

• Competition

• Niche

• Predator

• Prey

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The _______________ condition in which a tomato plant grows is a temperature of 32⁰C, regular rainfall, and a soil with a pH of 7. If any of those conditions change, the plant doesn't grow as well.

• optimal

• metabolism

• locus

• community

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If a scientist uses the letter C to represent the trait of curly hair in dogs, then Cc would be considered a(n)

• allele

• phenotype

• genotype

• homologous

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A scientist used the letter C to represent the trait of curly hair in dogs and c to represent straight hair, then a dog that has curly hair would be considered a(n)

• locus

• allele

• phenotype

• genotype

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Scientists have mapped the location of the genes on their chromosomes for hundreds of different species. The particular place on a chromosome where a gene is found is the __________________

• genotype

• phenotype

• allele

• locus

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All of the white-tailed deer living on Eastern Neck island near Rock Hall are considered to be a(n)

• Community

• Population

• Niche

• Locus

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Eastern Neck island has many organisms including deer, rabbits, foxes, white pine, oak, ticks, worms, and many types of fungi. All of these organisms compose the ________

• population

• niche

• habitat

• community

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Odocoileus virginianus are white tailed deer and an African lion is known as Panthera leo. The terms in italics are

• common names for those animals

• Italian names for those animals

• French names for those animals

• scientific names for those animals