Adaptations

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What is a species?
Organisms that have lots of characteristics in common and can mate to produce fertile offspring.
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What is competition?
‘Fighting’ with other organisms for resources.
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What is migration?
Moving to another area for part of the year.
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What is prey?
Animal that is eaten by another animal.
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What is a predator?
Animal that eats other animals.
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What is adaptation?
Characteristic that enables an organism to survive and be successful in its environment.
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What is variation?
Differences in characteristics.
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What is continuous variation?
Type of variation where a characteristic can take any value within a range.
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What is discontinuous variation?
Type of variation where a characteristic can only result in certain values.
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What is interdependence?
The way organisms depend on each other to survive, grow, and reproduce.
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What do plants need to survive?
Light and Minerals
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What do animals need to survive?
Food and Mates
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What do both plants and animals need to survive?
Space and Water
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What are some Environmental variation examples?
Pierced ears, scars and tattoos
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what are some inherited variation examples?
genetic diseases, blood group and eye colour
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What can be both environmental and inherited variation examples?
height, mass and intelligence
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What apparatus can you use to find variation?
Stop watch and tape measure
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How do you find the time?
distance divided by speed
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how do you find the speed?
distance divided by time
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How do you find the distance?
speed x time
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What graph do you use to show results
Histogram
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What features does a histogram have?
Histograms should have no space between the bars, the independent variable along the x axis and each bar should be represented by different variables.
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What is endangered?
species of plants and animals that have only a small population
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What is a chromosome?
long strand of DNA that contains many genes
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What is a gene?
section of DNA that holds the information to produce a characteristic
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What is evolution?
development of a species over time
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What is DNA?
chemical that contains all the information needed to make an organism
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What is a nucleus?
part of the cell where DNA is stored
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What is a fossil?
the remains of plants and animals that have now turned to stone
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What is natural selection?
the process by which organisms evolve
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What is extinct?
when no more individuals of a species are left anywhere in the world the species
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What is a gene bank?
a store of genetic samples from different species
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How many chromosomes in a sperm cell?
23
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How many chromosomes in a egg cell?
23
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How many Chromosomes in a fertilised egg cell?
46
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How many chromosomes in a normal body cell?
46
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