Natural Selection & Genetics Vocab Quiz

When humans select plants or animals for breeding based on their desired traits

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Evolution

• variation

Animals inherit advantageous traits through reproduction:

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

• variation

• adaptation

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The process by which populations change over time

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

• extinction

• Evolution

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Occurs when all members of a species have died

• Evolution

• Mutation

• Extinction

• Adaptation

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An inherited trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in it's environment:

• adaptation

• mutation

• variation

• evolution

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Passing of genetic material (DNA) from parent to offspring:

• heredity

• genotype

• phenotype

• recessive

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The lowercase letter in a genotype which only contributes to the phenotype if two of them are present, aka the "weaker" allele.

• genotype

• gene

• dominant

• recessive

The combination of alleles inherited from your parents (the letter pairs)

• phenotype

• genotype

• alleles

• genes

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The segments of DNA found in chromosomes that give instructions for producing a certain characteristic.

• alleles

• genotype

• Genes

• codominance

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This allele contributes to the phenotype if either one OR two copies are present, aka as the "stronger" allele.

• dominant

• recessive

• genotype

• phenotype