4-03 QUIZ: Natural Selection VOCAB

What is Protista?

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

• The process by which humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits.

• A group of living organisms capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.

• Cannot be classified as animal, plant, or fungus, eukaryotes, most are unicellular, and autotroph and heterotroph.

What does Internal Structure refer to?

• Characteristics that are passed on to offspring from parents.

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

• Differences among organisms of the same species.

• A part of an organism on the inside of the body that helps the organism survive.

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What is the Environment?

• A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.

• A section of what an animal or plant is made of.

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

• Differs from other bacteria, prokaryotic, unicellular, autotroph and heterotroph.

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What are Genetic Traits?

• A part of an organism on the inside of the body that helps the organism survive.

• Characteristics that are passed on to offspring from parents.

• What the structure does, a special task.

• A body part, feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive better in its environment.

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What is an External Structure?

• A part of an organism on the outside of the body that helps the organism survive.

• What the structure does, a special task.

• The process by which humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits.

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

What is Artificial Selection?

• The process by which humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits.

• Part of a living organism's activity.

• Multicellular, eukaryotes, most live on land, autotrophs.

• The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive.

Match the following descriptions with their correct terms.

• Characteristics of bacteria.

• What the structure does, a special task.

• Definition of 'function'.

• True bacteria, prokaryotic, unicellular, autotrophs and heterotroph.

• Describes animals.

• Multicellular, eukaryotes, all heterotrophs.

• Describes genetic variation.

• Differences among organisms of the same species.

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What is an Organism?

• A section of what an animal or plant is made of.

• Differences among organisms of the same species.

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

• The process by which humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits.

What characterizes Fungi?

• Multicellular, eukaryotes, live everywhere, heterotrophs.

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

• Multicellular, eukaryotes, all heterotrophs.

• The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive.

What is Natural Selection?

• Cannot be classified as animal, plant, or fungus.

• Organisms engineered to contain foreign DNA.

• The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive.

• A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals.

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