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 only animals need to survive?
Food and Mates
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What do only plants need to survive?
Light and Minerals
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What do both animals and plants need to survive?
Space and Water
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What are only Environmental variation examples?
Tattoos and scars
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What are only inherited variation examples?
Blood Group and eye colour
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What are examples of both environmental and inherited variation?
Height and Intelligence
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How do you find the time?
Distance divided by speed
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How do you find speed?
distance divided by time
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How do you find the distance?
speed x time
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What do you use to show results
Histogram
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What does Endangered mean?
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 does extinct mean?
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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What is Competition?

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‘Fighting’ with other organisms for resources.

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What is Migration?

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What is Prey?

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What is a Predator?

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