Final Exam Review 23-24

The very slow, ongoing natural process in which the organisms best suited for their environment survive to reproduce and carry on their species.

• conduction

• natural selection

• runoff

• humans choose which are the "best" traits to be passed on

The theory that species gradually change over time, through random variations that improve the chances of certain individuals to survive and reproduce.

• evolution

• conduction

• mutation

• when thermal energy increases

A quality or characteristic that makes one organism different from another.

• trait

• two things that humans do to influence climate change

• condensation

• radiation

Crossing carefully chosen plants or animals to produce offspring with certain desirable traits.

• businesses will use more water too

• human activity

• survival of the fittest

• selective breeding

The changing of genes in a laboratory to produce a particular trait in an organism.

• genetic engineering

• conduction

• climate change

• fossils from ancient ocean life

An animal, plant, or microbe whose DNA has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.

• GMO

• makes crops more durable and pest resistant

• flooding prevention

• conduction

A small piece of DNA that codes that for a protein.

• selective breeding

• gene

• convection

• radiation

The whole amount of code in an organism's DNA.

• genome

• positive of greenhouse effect

• is heat matter?

• conduction

A change in genes that produces a trait in an animal or plant that did not appear in its parents.

• mutation

• selective breeding

• water vapor condenses into liquid water and then freezes into ice

• thermal energy

The difference in genome between individuals in a population. Caused by mutations.

• genetic variation

• butterflies depend on milkweed which is vulnerable to climate change

• what burning fossil fuels creates

• sustainable