Semester Review

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.

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The differences among a species, like different bird beaks, are called

• genes.
• variations.
• traits.
• theories.

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Why did the population of peppered moths in England change from light to dark after the Industrial Revolution?

• Light moths were easy to see against sooty trees and were eaten
• Light moths were killed by soot
• The birds that ate the dark moths were killed by soot
• Dark moths were produced by industrial processes

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The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic factors
• Biotic factors

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What is the original source of energy in an ecosytem?

• producers
• decomposers
• consumers
• sun

an organism that lives on another living organism causing it harm

• biotic
• host
• Biodiversity
• parasite

an organism that gets its food by breaking down the remains of dead organisms and returning the nutrients back to the soil

• Host
• Decomposer
• Producer
• Consumer

an autotrophic organism that makes its own food with energy from the sun

• Host
• Decomposer
• Producer
• Consumer

a group of the same species that live together in an area

• Ecosystem
• Population
• Community

a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism neither benefits nor is harmed.

• symbiosis
• mutualism
• Commensalism
• host