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WorksheetsMelanin Mini Unit Assessment
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Match the following terms with their correct definitions:
Change over time
Evolution
Organisms that are best adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more than others
Natural Selection
All of an organism's genetic material
Genome
Variation is defined as:
a change or slight difference in condition, amount, or a phenotype in an organism
a complete absence of change.
a random occurrence with no pattern.
a fixed and unchanging state.
Overproduction in biological terms refers to:
The production of more offspring than can survive.
The production of fewer offspring than can survive.
The production of exactly the number of offspring that can survive.
The production of offspring without any survival challenges.
__________________ in biology is a concept that explains the interaction between organisms or species, in which the fitness of one is lowered by the presence of another. What does this concept describe?
Mutualism
Parasitism
Competition
Commensalism
A protein is made up of:
Carbohydrate
Lipid
Nucleic Acid
amino acids
What are the 5 types of evidence for evolution?
Fossil records, comparative anatomy (homologous structures), biochemical information, embryology, and vestigial structures
Fossil records, astrology, genetic information, embryology, and biogeography
Fossil records, comparative anatomy, mythology, embryology, and biogeography
Fossil records, comparative anatomy (homologous structures), genetic information, astrology, and biogeography
What are vestigial structures?
Structures that have lost their original function through evolution
Structures that are newly developed in an organism
Structures that are essential for survival
Structures that are unique to a particular species
What are homologous structures?
Structures that are similar in different species because they were inherited from a common ancestor.
Structures that perform the same function in different species but are not derived from a common ancestor.
Structures that are completely different in form and function across species.
Structures that are artificially created in a laboratory setting.
Fill in the blank: ______ are different versions of genes.
alleles
chromosomes
proteins
cells
Cyte- means
Melanin
Cell
Nucleus
Vitamin D
A place or location
