SCI 115 Week 10 Discussion

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Question 1

Most of the Earth’s phosphorous is in the form of ____.

                       

Question 2

Environmental pressures result in a(n) ____ of adaptive alleles.

                       

Question 3

What is one result of the bottleneck effect?

                       

Question 4

Observable traits are known in genetics as ____.

                       

           

Question 5

California’s most extensive ecosystem, the ____ biome, is dominated by drought-resistant, fire-adapted shrubs with small, leathery leaves.                                  

 

Question 6

What is a SNP?

                       

           

Question 7

Males are more commonly affected by X-linked recessive genetic disorders than females because ____.

                       

                       

Question 8

The appearance of _____ on Earth due to the action of photosynthetic bacteria occurred about 2.7 billion years ago.

 

Question 9

When two alleles of the same gene are identical, the individual carrying those alleles is said to be ____.

                       

           

Question 10

The nitrogen cycle on land begins with ____.

                       

Question 11

Many soil fungi take part in a mutualistic relationship with plant roots, known as _____.

                       

Question 12

All fungi are _____.                        

           

                                   

Question 13

One reason angiosperms are more successful than gymnosperms is because gymnosperms lack _____.

                       

                                   

Question 14

Red coat is dominant in horses and white coat is recessive. In a cross between a homozygous dominant red-coated horse and a white-coated horse, what genotype(s) would be observed in the offspring?

                       

 

Question 15

The entire set of genetic material of a given individual is its ____.

 

Question 16

A group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific location is called a(n) ____.                             

                       

Question 17

Typically, where would the oldest fossils be found?

                                   

Question 18

Which of the following traits allowed for evolutionary innovations in body form?                                   

                       

                                   

Question 19

Hind leg bones in whales are an example of ____ structures.

           

Question 20

A gene that produces multiple effects is called a(n) ____.