Reproductive Behaviors

Identify the correct word that is meant in the following statements.

____________ 1. An organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in its environment.

____________2. A threatening or unfriendly behavior.

____________3. Animals produce many small offspring but few survive and other produce only a few
large offspring.

____________4. All animals seek to reproduce and pass their ____________ to their offspring.

____________5. Behaviors that help animals attract mates.

____________6. Warn competitors to stay away.

7. What are the ways on courtship behavior to attract with their mates towards other animals?

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8. Why do males put so much time and energy into courtship?

9. What is the purpose of courtship behavior?

Plant Reproductive Structures

____________ 1. Are one way plants can reproduce it contains genetic information to make a new
plant.

____________2. Type of flower that has a strong smell of rotting meat.

____________3. Seedless plants rely on _______ to reproduce.

____________4. Flowering seed plants.

____________5. Plants that produce seeds but not flowers.

____________6. Yellow powder of seed plants that contains male sperm cells.

____________7. Flower that has male and female structures.

____________8. The transfer of pollen from male reproductive structure to a female reproductive
structure.

____________9. An animal that transfer pollen from flower to flower.

____________10. The movement of seeds away from parent plant.

Reproductive Strategies

____________1. Type of reproduction on Honeybee.

____________2. Differences between organisms that are caused by differences in genetic information.

____________3. Production of offspring by a single parent.

____________4. Production of offspring by two parents.

____________5. A cell grown to a certain size and then split in two.

____________6. Requires a sperm cell and an egg cell to combine in fertilization.

____________7. Pieces of the parent break off and develop in to a new organism.

____________8. Occurs when unfertilized eggs develop into offspring without genetic information from
sperm.

____________9. A method of asexual reproduction in plants that reproduces plant offspring from a part
of the parent plant.

10. What are the advantage and disadvantage of the two reproduction?

Mitosis, Meiosis and Inheritance

What are the difference and similarities of mitosis and meiosis? Explain.

Predicting Traits

____________1. What does Gregor Mendel experimented in finding the inheritance and traits of an
organisms.

____________2. A likelihood that something will happen.

____________3. Masked the recessive trait.

____________4. Hidden by a dominant trait.

____________5. An organism that has two same alleles for a trait.

____________6. An organism that has two different alleles for a trait.

____________7. A tool that is used to predict the possible combinations of alleles in offspring.

What genotype and phenotype will the offspring have? Use the font color to identify the offspring color.

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Double Helix

Identify the statement if it is TRUE or FALSE.

____________1. Bacteria can transfer genetic information.

____________2. DNA is made up of nucleotides.

____________3. Chargaff studied the structure of DNA.

____________4. Base pairs are the complementary bases that make up DNA.

____________5. Translation is the process of making an RNA molecule from DNA molecule.

____________6. DNA is the molecule that helps to transfer DNA information to the protein-making
organelles in cells.

____________7. The second step in protein-making is Translation.

____________8. The complementary base pairs in DNA allow it to replicate, or make copies of itself.

____________9. James Watson and Francis Crick were working on DNA structure at the same time as
Franklin and Wilkins.

____________10. A double helix is a three-dimensional structure made of two strands that spiral around
axis.