Variation and Classification

Question 0

What are the two things that cause difference?

Answer 0

Our genes, the environment

Question 1

What do we call the differences between members of the same species?

Answer 1

Variation

Question 2

In general, who are children similar to?

Answer 2

Their parents.

Question 3

Differences occur because children _______ characteristics from both their _______ and they can be affected by their __________.

Answer 3

Inherit, parents, environment

Question 4

Both _______ and _____ can be varied with inhertage and environment.

Answer 4

Animals, plants.

Question 5

Genetic variation comes from _____.

Answer 5

Genes

Question 6

A gene is the basic unit of ___________.

Answer 6

Inheritance

Question 7

Genes are responsible for our characteristics such as eye colour, hair colour etc. we inherit our genes from our parents from the _____ and ___.

Answer 7

Sperm, egg

Question 8

Our genes are found on structures called _____________ inside the nucleus of every cell. They tell us what we should be like. Dalmatians have spots and ducks have webbed feet- chicken don’t because they have ____ in the _________ nucleus of their cells that instruct them to appear like that.

Answer 8

Chromosomes, genes, nucleus

Question 9

Differences are also caused by the ________.

Answer 9

Environment.

Question 10

Identical twins can look different from each other due to _____________: their __________ are identical.

Answer 10

Environmental variation, genes

Question 11

Children inherit variation from their ________.

Answer 11

Parents

Question 12

What would happen if two parents have a certain characteristic?

Answer 12

Then their child MAY show it even more.

Question 13

What things can we get from the environment?

Answer 13

Glasses, scars and muscles.

Question 14

The instructions that make up a plant or animal comes from the _________.

Answer 14

Parents.

Question 15

1/2 comes from the ______ and 1/2 comes from the ___.

Answer 15

Sperm, egg.

Question 16

These instructions are found in the __________ of the cells.

Answer 16

Nucleus

Question 17

the instruction for each characteristic are called _____.

Answer 17

Genes.

Question 18

Name some inherited variation factors.

Answer 18

Natural hair colour, eye colour, blood group

Question 19

Name some environmental variation factors.

Answer 19

Scottish accent, scar, muscles.

Question 20

Name the five types of vertebrate.

Answer 20

Mammals,
Fish,
Birds,
Reptiles,
Amphibian

Question 21

Define species.

Answer 21

Animals with similar features that are capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.

Question 22

What is an example of a mammal?

Answer 22

Human, squirrel, giraffe, lion, tiger, cheetah, whale, panda etc

Question 23

What is an example of a bird?

Answer 23

Seagull, pigeon, peacock, penguin

Question 24

What is an example of a reptile?

Answer 24

Snake, crocodile

Question 25

What is an example of a fish?

Answer 25

Salmon, cod, shark

Question 26

What is an example of an amphibian?

Answer 26

Frog, toad

Question 27

What makes a mammal a mammal?

Answer 27

It has fur/hair, gives birth, doesn't lay eggs, suckles its young.

Question 28

What makes a bird, a bird?

Answer 28

Has feathers, lays hard eggs

Question 29

What makes a reptile, a reptile?

Answer 29

Dry, scaly skin, lays eggs, cold blooded.

Question 30

What makes an amphibian, an amphibian?

Answer 30

Live in water AND land, moist skin, lays soft eggs

Question 31

What makes a fish, a fish?

Answer 31

Has wet, loose scales, lives in water, has gills, lays eggs

Question 32

Into which group would you put a human?

Answer 32

Mammal

Question 33

Into which group would the snake?

Answer 33

Reptile

Question 34

Into which group would you classify a frog?

Answer 34

Amphibian

Question 35

What are the features of Annelids?

Answer 35

Long body, divided into segments, bristles called chaetae

Question 36

Give an example of an Annelid.

Answer 36

Round worm

Question 37

To what group of invertebrates does snail belong.

Answer 37

Molluscs.

Question 38

What are the features of a mollusc?

Answer 38

Soft body with a shell, live in water and on land

Question 39

What group of invertebrates have star shaped body, tough and spiny skin and live in water?

Answer 39

Echinoderms

Question 40

What are the features of crustaceans?

Answer 40

Segmented body, hard outer skeleton, two pairs of antennae, joined legs, live in water or damp places.

Question 41

Give two examples of crustaceans.

Answer 41

Crab, lobster

Question 42

Give an example of an echinoderm.

Answer 42

Starfish

Question 43

In what group of invertebrates does the beetle belong?

Answer 43

Insect.

Question 44

What are the features of an insect?

Answer 44

Body divided into three sections: head, thorax and abdomen, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae, body covered by a hard case-like outer skeleton.

Question 45

What is an arachnid?

Answer 45

An invertebrate that has a body divided into two, four pairs of jointed legs, antennae, body covered by a hard outer skeleton

Question 46

Give an example of an arachnid.

Answer 46

Spider.

Question 47

To which group of invertebrates does a centipede belong?

Answer 47

Myriapods.

Question 48

What are the main features of myriapods?

Answer 48

Body divided into lots of sections, very many pairs of jointed legs, antennae, body covered by a hard outer skeleton.

Question 49

Which groups of invertebrates form the arthropod group?

Answer 49

Arachnids, insect, crustaceans

Question 50

In which group of invertebrates would you classify starfish to?

Answer 50

Echinoderm

Question 51

In which group of invertebrates would you classify wasp to?

Answer 51

Insect

Question 52

In which group of invertebrates would you classify moth to?

Answer 52

Insect

Question 53

In which group of invertebrates would you classify leech to?

Answer 53

Annelid.

Question 54

In which group of invertebrates would you classify oyster to?

Answer 54

Mollusc

Question 55

Which group of invertebrates have jointed legs?

Answer 55

Crustaceans, insects, arachnids, myriapods

Question 56

Which group of invertebrates crawl on a single fleshy pad?

Answer 56

Molluscs

Question 57

If an invertebrate's body is divided into five parts, which group does it belong to?

Answer 57

Myriapods

Question 58

Which invertebrates have round worm like bodies divided into segments?

Answer 58

Annelids