adaptations & inheritance

Question 1

what does adaptations mean?

Answer 1

characteristics that help an organism to survive in its environments

Question 2

what is continuous variation?

Answer 2

characteristics that can take any value within a range of values like height, weight

Question 3

what is discontinuous variation?

Answer 3

characteristics that can only be a certain value like eye colour, blood group

Question 4

what is a gene?

Answer 4

section of DNA that contains the information of a characteristic

Question 5

what is inherited variation?

Answer 5

the variation in characteristics inherited from parents

Question 6

what is natural selection?

Answer 6

process by which the organism with the characteristics are most suited to the environment survive and reproduce, passing on their genes.

Question 7

what is variation?

Answer 7

differences in characteristics with a species

Question 8

how many chromosomes do we have?

Answer 8

46 chromosomes

Question 9

what is hibernation?

Answer 9

when u sleep throughout the winter to reduce energy losses

Question 10

what is extinction?

Answer 10

the permanent loss of all the members of a specie