Quiz

Inheritance
 What is a key? (Identify in all three ways)
 What is a method of using a key?
 What is a specie?
 Why is meant by variation?
 What causes variation?
 How is variation caused by environment and genes, give example?
 What is inheritance?
 Draw a diagram to represent the inner structure of an organism’s cell?
 What are genes?
 What does genes determine?
 What does genes provide?
 How are genes passed?
 What does genes tell?
 Do all organisms have genes?
 How are our genes divided?
 What carries genes?
 An animal belonging to one specie always give birth to what?
 Why a gorilla cannot speak?
 What is the full form of DNA?
 Genes and Chromosomes are made up of what?
 Each gene is a set of what?
 All cells in our body have what and what?( Give example)
 How many forms do most of the genes have?
 In which part of a cell is DNA found?
 Our genes are found inside what?
 What are chromosomes?
 As we grow what happens to our cell? (Explain the process)
 Where did our first cell come from? (Explain the process)
 After the fertilization, do the chromosomes of male and female parent
combine together?
 Our genes are a mixture of what?
 White and grey mountain hare are a variety of hare formed as a result of?
 For the formation of a zygote each human parent gives how many
chromosomes?
 When the cells divide to increase in number daughter cell always have
how many number of chromosomes to parent cell?
 Water Buffalos were domesticated how many years ago?
 What is the meaning of domesticating?
 What is the difference between calm and docile buffalos?
 What is the format of breeding sheep’s?
 Describe the abilities of different kinds of breeding?
 What is wheat? Why is it used?
 What are the seed heads of wheat plants called?
 What are seeds called?
 Which animals are allowed to breed?
 Write the differences and similarities between selective breeding and
natural selection?
 Different organisms breeding together to produce offspring which further
have species are called what?
 Identify the factors which particularly affect the population of giraffe?
 Natural selection and selective breeding couldn’t be possible if?
 What are antibiotics?
 What is the meaning of resistant bacteria? (Explain using the diagram)
 Why should we use antibiotics only for serious illness?
 Where do peppered moths live and what are their types?
 What kinds of peppered moths live in which environment?
 Where do peppered moths live and by whom are they eaten?
 What is lichen?
 By 1849, why were all peppered moths pale?
 By 1900, why were all peppered moths dark?
 How could the dark moths easily survive?
 Today as pollution is decreased then what kind of moths are found?
 Evolution of peppered moth depend on what?
 What are hormones?
 Does a variety needs to be there in natural selection and selective
breeding?
 Who was Charles Darwin and where was he born?
 He had interest in what?
 Charles Lyell published Principles of Geology and what did it suggested?
 What happened in 1831?
 Darwin was interested in what? What kinds of birds did he discover?
 In 1855, what Darwin got? What was the popular hobby in England?
 In 1859, what did Thomas Malthus suggested in his book?
 In 1859, what did Darwin published?
 What were the main points of Darwin’s theory? What did he called the
theory?
 What does the theory of Natural selection states?
 Who put forward the theory of natural selection?
 Darwin was the first person to suggest what?