Inheritance & adaptions

What is an adaptation?

• A feature that helps only a plant grow.

• A feature that helps a living thing survive.

• A feature that helps a living thing walk.

• A feature that that helps only animals survive.

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Physical adaptations are:

• Body parts that help a living thing survive in its environment
• Behaviors that help a living thing survive in its environment

True or False: The surroundings or conditions in which a plant or animal lives or operates is called environment.

• False

• True

Behavioral adaptations are:

• Body parts that help a living thing survive in its environment
• Behaviors that help a living thing survive in its environment

What is the definition of camouflage?

• body coverings that blend in with the environment
  
• everything that surrounds a living thing.
• a feature or behavior that helps a living thing survive in its  environment.
  
• the place where a living thing makes its home.

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Coloring or another physical characteristic that help an organism blend in with its environment

• mimicry
• camouflage
• hibernation
• migration

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

How do adaptations help animals?

• To escape animals
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

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An allele that will express itself even in the presence of a recessive allele.

• Dominant trait

• Recessive trait

• Codominance

• Incomplete dominance

It is passed on from parents to offspring.

• characteristic

• trait

• inherited

• evidence

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Having two of the SAME alleles for a trait (example HH or hh), the result is

• homozygous
• heterozygous
• recessive
• dominant