Semester Review

Adaptation is

• the process that makes an organism look better

• the process in which weak organisms are killed off

• the process in which an organism becomes better adapted to its environment

• the process in which oxygen is transformed into glucose

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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.

Deliver sugar (food/energy) and oxygen to cells; removes carbon dioxide

• respiratory system

• circulatory system

• skeletal system

• nervous system

Selective breeding is where ___________ decides which traits should be passed on

• Nature

• A human

• Mrs. Yezak

• The illuminati

Farmers often make observations about the traits of their plants as they practice selective breeding.  A farmer might practice selective breeding to produce corn plants that

• use more water
• all look the same
• are resistant to disease
• can grow human proteins

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The main function of the digestive system is to...

• Protect the body from infections
• Store nutrients into the bones
• Break down food to be absorbed
• Support and protect the organs of the body

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The body system that transmits information inside the body using electrical impulses.

• Endocrine
• Skeletal
• Muscular
• Nervous

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In _________,_____________ only one parent organism produces offspring.

• sexual reproduction

• asexual reproduction

• pollination process

• fertilization process

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Hydra produce offspring by growing the new individual on the body of the parent. This is an example of...

• budding.

• fission.

• regeneration.

• tubers.

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Sexual reproduction requires ______ parent(s) and asexual reproduction requires ______ parent(s).

• one, one

• two, two

• two, one

• one, two

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