Adaptations and Natural Selection Vocab Quiz

A pair of contradictory statements where one statement is accepted and the other rejected.

• Couplet

• Organism

• Kingdom

• Dichotomous Key

An individual animal, plant or single-celled life form.

• Couplet

• Organism

• Kingdom

• Dichotomous Key

One of six groups of organisms that share similar characteristics with other that are also in that group.

• Couplet

• Organism

• Kingdom

• Dichotomous Key

A tool used to determine the identity of things in the natural world

• Couplet

• Organism

• Kingdom

• Dichotomous Key

True bacteria, prokaryotic, unicellular, autotrophs and heterotroph, spherical or rod-shaped, and found in soil, rocks, oceans, snow and living organisms.

• Kingdom Eubacteria

• Kingdom

  Archaebacteria

• Kingdom Protista

• Kingdom Fungi

Multicellular, eukaryotes, all heterotrophs – consumers; Ex: yeast (A), mushrooms (B), ringworm (C).

• Kingdom Eubacteria

• Kingdom

  Archaebacteria

• Kingdom Protista

• Kingdom Fungi

The surrounding or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives.

• Environment

• Genetic Traits

• Adaptation

• Genetically Modified Organism (GMO's)

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Characteristics that are passed on to offspring (inherited) from parents

• Environment

• Genetic Traits

• Adaptation

• Genetically Modified Organism (GMO's)

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Organisms engineered to contain foreign DNA that the organism could not obtain in traditional breeding which is usually done to introduce a beneficial trait.

• Environment

• Genetic Traits

• Adaptation

• Genetically Modified Organism (GMO's)

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-5

A body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in in its environment that is developed through natural selection.

• Environment

• Genetic Traits

• Adaptation

• Genetically Modified Organism (GMO's)

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4