| Term | Definition |
|---|
| dominant allele | a capital letter stands for what in a punnet square |
| YY | give an example of a homozygous dominant genotype |
| dominant factor | allele that covers up or dominates another trait |
| recessive factor | short form, seemed to disappear by another form |
| incomplete dominance | production of a phenotype that is intermediate between the two homozygous parents |
| Gregor Mendel | an Austrian monk who studied peas for seven years- the father of genetics |
| Physical adaptations | some prey species have physical features that enable them to avoid predators, how they're made |
| Behavioral adaptations | animals have these that enable them to capture prey or to aviod predators, what they do |
| list the genotypes and phenotypes of a homozygous yellow pea plant YY crossed with a heterozygous yellow pea plant Yy | YY, YY, Yy, Yy, Yellow pea plant |
| what adaptations would be helpful for an animal species that was moved FROM the desert TO the tiaga | be able to go from cold to hot, and to live in trees |
| limiting factors | anything that can restrict the size of a population, including living and non living features of an ecosystem can support over time |
| Biosphere | part of earth that supports life, includes the lythosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere |
| Carrying capacity | largest # of individuals of a particular species that an ecosystem can support over time |
| Symbiosis | any close relationship between species, including mutualism, commensalism,and parasitism |
| give an example of mutualism and commensalism | mutualism- lichens growing on Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
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ees, commensalism- a clown fish and an anemone |
| give an example of parasitism and pretator /prey | parasitism- roundworms on pet dogs, predator/prey- lion hunting an antelope |
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