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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 1 Inheritance and Selection

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 2 Q1. What do we call getting characteristics from our parents?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 3 A1. Inheritance

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 4 Q2. What do we call the process of choosing particular animals or plants to breed?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 5 A2. Selection

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 6 Q3. Name a long molecule that contains all the information needed to make a plant or animal

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 7 A3. DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 8 Q4. What do we call a section of DNA that contains the information about a particular trait?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 9 A4. A gene

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 10 Q5. What do we call differences in characteristics within a particular species?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 11 A5. Variation

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 12 Q6. Name a domestic pet originally selectively bred from wolves

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 13 A6. Dog

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 14 Q7. Name a farm animal selectively bred for efficient meat or milk production

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 15 A7. Cattle

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 16 Q8. Name the fine powder produced by flowering plants that contains male reproductive cells and causes hay-fever.

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 17 A8. Pollen

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 18 Q9. What do we call a chemical made in a plant or animal that regulates growth and development?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 19 A9. A hormone

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 20 Q10. What do we call a single stage in the evolutionary descent of a group of animals or plants?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 21 A10. A generation

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 22 Q11. What do we call the surroundings in which all animals and plants live?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 23 A11. The environment

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 24 Q12. What do we call the natural home of a particular plant or animal?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 25 A12. The habitat

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 26 Q13. What do we call the X shaped structures in a cell nucleus made up of coiled up DNA?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 27 A13. Chromosomes

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 28 Q14. What do we call a genetically determined inherited characteristic?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 29 A14. A trait

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 30 Q15. What do we call variations that can take any value, like height or weight?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 31 A15. Continuous

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 32 Q16. What do we call variations that can only take certain values like eye colour or number of fingers?

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 33 A16. Discrete

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NTScience.co.uk 2005KS3 Unit 9a Inheritance and selection 34 Well Done! Now check your score